tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post7266247471532641318..comments2024-03-06T08:05:29.800-05:00Comments on Casual Debris: Casual Debris Presents: An Introduction to the Alfred Hitchcock AnthologiesCasual Debrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08098608670682517783noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-33856323922195203562023-10-06T11:09:53.628-04:002023-10-06T11:09:53.628-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jordan Prejeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18153214679480741539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-41620190416219572142019-01-27T11:35:20.739-05:002019-01-27T11:35:20.739-05:00Actually, looking at its contents again, I could b...Actually, looking at its contents again, I could believe that MY FAVORITES IN SUSPENSE was an Arthur ghost job, but that it wouldn't quite Have to be. It would be interesting to know who really was doing the work there...she might even have asked the AHMM people for help, as well. <br /><br />But, then, it would be useful to know who edited the AHMM best-ofs for Dell (last best word I have is that they were edited at Scott Meredith Literary Agency...since Meredith himself apparently edited the first several years of MANHUNT magazine under another pseudonym (Meredith not being his birth name), he might even have done the magazine selections for Dell himself, but could just as easily passed the job along. Or who edited the Simon & Schuster volumed, or the Pocket Book...and if Dell editor Don Ward did ALL the Hitchcock books of before the tv series, as well as editing ZANE GREY WESTERN MAGAZINE for Dell and ghosting the Orson Welles sf anthology Dell would publish. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104399586348314594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-38400417234359949112019-01-27T07:38:19.157-05:002019-01-27T07:38:19.157-05:00Indeed, Delacorte was The Other Dell hardcover lin...Indeed, Delacorte was The Other Dell hardcover line, but by the latter '70s, when Dell/Dial was publishing hardcover editions of the ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S ANTHOLOGY issues, the Dial Press was more active. Among the notable products of Delacorte were the last three annual volumes of Judith Merril's THE YEAR'S BEST SF.<br /><br />It is possible that Arthur did the editing on MY FAVORITES IN SUSPENSE, but I'd disagree that it has quite the same feel or diversity as the books where Arthur is given a lightly disguised credit. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Pat Hitchcock was responsible for the choices...there's relatively little boosting to his daughter's career to have her barely credited...it would be interesting to see what the contract for the book. She was on the staff of the magazine during its HSD years, though to what extent it was a real job I don't know. <br /><br />And The Hitchcock Zone makes its own errors...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104399586348314594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-71126205368846054402017-08-26T22:27:10.959-04:002017-08-26T22:27:10.959-04:00A big belated thanks for the comments & correc...A big belated thanks for the comments & corrections. I seem to have somehow missed some comments!Casual Debrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08098608670682517783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-6109651558056754152016-10-17T10:31:35.794-04:002016-10-17T10:31:35.794-04:00Richard Bober did the great covers shown here, he ...Richard Bober did the great covers shown here, he did several others as well. Josh Kirby did some nice ones for<br />British editions.<br />some Randy Broeckernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-49126754327124343112015-08-13T10:25:09.453-04:002015-08-13T10:25:09.453-04:00I highly doubt that Patricia O'Connell (Hitchc...I highly doubt that Patricia O'Connell (Hitchcock) actually selected the contents of AHP: My Favorites in Suspense. It feels VERY much like a Robert Arthur volume in both selection and organization, and the year (1959) corresponds to beginning of Arthur's association with the Hitch anthologies at Random House. The Hitchcock Wiki credits Arthur as the editor. O'Connell possibly worked with Arthur in some capacity but it is more likely that Hitch was using his leverage at Random House to get his daughter's foot in the publishing door. <br /><br />Any idea on the illustrator of those wonderful Dell paperbacks? From the mid-60s on to the mid-70s these paperbacks were great, mostly because of their covers but don't discount the contents either. Not all were magazine reprints and some contained fine writers of suspense such as Jonathan Craig, Robert Bloch, Fletcher Flora, and Jack Ritchie, among others.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808904189056290207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-29138045291644181402013-12-04T12:12:04.096-05:002013-12-04T12:12:04.096-05:00This is the first time I've seen this site. A ...This is the first time I've seen this site. A lot of what's here seems pretty accurate. Just one note: Dial Press, while a hardcover imprint of Dell Books in the '70s and onward, was not the only hardcover imprint of Dell. In fact, Dell's primary hardcover imprint during the time under discussion was Delacorte Press--which existed primarily to publish in hardcover books that Dell would subsequently reprint in paperback. Delacorte was the first hardcover imprint to be so closely linked to a mass-market paperback imprint.James Frenkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10308140107540077732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-7787381907794122252011-03-08T21:25:02.268-05:002011-03-08T21:25:02.268-05:00I can sympathize...I'm not quite clear of the ...I can sympathize...I'm not quite clear of the last two weeks' worth of flu myself. I hope to pick up all the AH/"AH" anthos eventually, as well, but it is a bit like untangling bait-arthropods...what with the confusions Dell and the other have introduced into the process.<br /><br />Best of luck...I'll keep watching your progress with this. Certainly, Peter Enfantino of http://barebonesez.blogspot.com/ has an uncompleted ms. devoted to all the iterations of the AH literary empire...perhaps we can jolly him into publishing what he has finished peacemeal, much as he's anatomizing MANHUNT and the Health Knowledge horror magazines (first, of course, having run through the MAGAZINE OF HORROR) piecemeal now.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-35959847496695901582011-03-01T23:39:55.980-05:002011-03-01T23:39:55.980-05:00A HANGMAN'S DOZEN, AH'S NOOSE REPORT, etc....A HANGMAN'S DOZEN, AH'S NOOSE REPORT, etc., were 1960s anthos drawn exclusively from AHMM, which Dell would intersperse with the more eclectic two-volume reprints from the Arthur (and O'Connell) hardcovers, and, as you note, the reprints of the earliest Dell anthos. They did a dandy job of mucking up the bibliographic works (furthered when the paperback editions, not by Dell, of the Random House Arthur YA anthos for no compelling reason abridged the selections...).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-30272518212951110222011-03-01T23:32:02.822-05:002011-03-01T23:32:02.822-05:00Also, recall that Patricia O'Connell ghosted A...Also, recall that Patricia O'Connell ghosted AHP: MY FAVORITES IN SUSPENSE. One does wonder how much AH edited even the earliest Dell books.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-7822231237126778462011-03-01T23:31:00.098-05:002011-03-01T23:31:00.098-05:00You're very close...Dial Press was actually th...You're very close...Dial Press was actually the hardcover imprint of Dell Books, who continued to do AHMM-based anthologies, of course, after the sale of the magazine by the collapsing HSD Publications to Davis, to join longtime Davis property EQMM. MIKE SHAYNE wasn't really in the picture as a source of stories for these books, as it was published by others. Masur did several of the AHP books after Arthur's 1969 death, giving up with AH's own death in '79. All "AH" anthos after then are drawn from the magazine, and from AHMM and EQMM together.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com