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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories that Go Bump in the Night

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  • Published by:
    • Random House, 1977, USA.
  • Also contains:
    • “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce
    • “The Scruff of the Soul” by Doroty Salisbury Davis
    • “Murder On St.Valentine’s Day” by Mignon G. Eberhart
    • “Hey, Look At Me!” by Jack Finney
    • “Muldoon And The Numbers Game” by Robert L. Fish
    • “The Capture” by James Hay, Jr.
    • “The Guide’s Story” by Dion Henderson
    • “Woodrow Wilson’s Necktie” by Patricia Highsmith
    • “Something For The Dark” by Edward D. Hoch
    • “The Grey Shroud” by Antony Horner
    • “The Gentleman Caller” by Veronica Parker Johns
    • “The Coconut Trial” by Don Knowlton
    • “Man In A Trap” by John D. Macdonald
    • “The Bearded Lady” by Ross Macdonald
    • “Dead Game” by Harold Q. Masur
    • “No Such Thing As A Vampire” by Richard Matheson
    • “A Piece Of The World” by Steve O’Connell
    • “Easy Mark” by Talmage Powell
    • “Proof Of Guilt” by Bill Pronzini
    • “The Operator” by Jack Ritchie
    • “The Other Celia” by Theodore Sturgeon
    • “An Evening In Whitechapel” by Nancy Swoboda
    • “Wile Versus Guile” by Arthur Train

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me

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  • Published by:
    • Random House, 1963, USA.
  • Also contains:
    • “Introduction” by Alfred Hitchcock
    • “The Child Who Believed” by Grace Amundson
    • “Just a Dreamer” by Robert Arthur
    • “The Wall-to-Wall Grave [“Walkup to Death”]” by Andrew Benedict
    • “The Wind” by Ray Bradbury
    • “Congo” by Stuart Cloete
    • “Witch’s Money” by John Collier
    • “The Secret of the Bottle [“The Mystery of the Bottle”]” by Gerald Kersh
    • “I Do Not Hear You, Sir” by Avram Davidson
    • “The Arbutus Collar” by Jeremiah Digges
    • “A Short Trip Home” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • “An Invitation to the Hunt” by George Hitchcock
    • “The Man Who Was Everywhere” by Edward D. Hoch
    • “The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson
    • “Adjustments” by George Mandel
    • “The Children of Noah” by Richard Matheson
    • “The Idol of the Flies” by Jane Rice
    • “Courtesy of the Road” by Mack Morriss
    • “Remains to Be Seen [as by Steve O’Connell]” by Jack Ritchie
    • “The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles” by Idris Seabright
    • “Lost Dog” by Henry Slesar
    • “Slime” by Joseph Payne Brennan
    • “How Love Came to Professor Guildea” by Robert S. Hichens
    • “Hostage” by Don Stanford
    • “Natural Selection” by Gilbert Thomas
    • “Simone” by Joan Vatsek
    • “Smart Sucker” by Richard Wormser
    • “Some of Your Blood” by Theodore Sturgeon

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night

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  • Published by:
    • Random House, 1961, USA.
  • Also contains:
    • “Death is a Dream” by Robert Arthur
    • “It’s a Good Life” by Jerome Bixby
    • “The Whole Town Sleeping” by Ray Bradbury
    • “Lady’s Man” by Ruth Chatterton
    • “Evening Primrose” by John Collier
    • “The Cocoon” by John B. L. Goodwin
    • “The Fly” by George Langelaan
    • “Back There in the Grass” by Gouverneur Morris
    • “The Mugging” by Edward L. Perry
    • “Finger! Finger!” by Margaret Ronan
    • “A Cry From the Penthouse” by Henry Slesar
    • “The People Next Door” by Pauline C. Smith
    • “D–Day” by Robert Trout
    • “The Man Who Liked Dickens” by Evelyn Waugh
    • “The Iron Gates” by Margaret Millar
    • And many more…

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Skeleton Crew

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  • Also contains:
    • “It’s a Good Life” by Jerome Bixby
    • “Lady’s Man” by Ruth Chatterton
    • “Pieces of Silver” by Brett Halliday
    • “The Whistling Room” by William Hope Hodgson
    • “Told For The Truth” by Cyril Hume
    • “The Fly” by George Langelaan
    • “The Mugging” by Edward L. Perry
    • “Finger! Finger!” by Margaret Ronan
    • “A Cry From The Penthouse” by Henry Slesar
    • “The People Next Door” by Pauline C. Smith

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The 20th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury

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  • Published by:
    • Knopf, 1990, USA.
      • Edited by: Jack Prelutsky
      • Illustrated by: Meilo So

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“Yesterday was Beautiful”

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  • Connections:
    • The setting is the RAF’s Greek campaign in World War II, which Dahl took part in and describes in Going Solo.

Plot Description

This is a very short little vignette from Dahl’s book of WW2 flying stories, Over to You. There’s not a lot of plot.

Spoiler warning! An English RAF pilot has ejected from his plane and parachuted onto a Greek island. He sprained his ankle when he landed and he’s now looking for a boat to take him back to the mainland. The village he finds is nearly deserted though. Eventually he finds an old man sitting near a drinking trough and asks him if he knows of anyone with a boat. The old man is muddled and expressionless. He asks when the Germans will be back. The pilot thinks they are done for the day. “I do not understand why they come to us, Inglese. There is no one here,” the old man says. The pilot again asks him about a boat. The old man says that Joannis Spirakis has a boat. Joannis used to live in the house nearest the water. It was destroyed by the Germans. He’s now living in the house of Antonina Angelou. The old man says that Joannis probably won’t be there right now, but his wife Anna will be. As the pilot goes to leave, the old man tells him that he should know that Joannis and Anna’s daughter Maria was in the house when the Germans bombed it.

The pilot finds Antonina’s house and is taken in to see Anna. He tells her that he’s looking for her husband because he’s heard he has a boat. “Where are the Germanoi?” the old woman asks. The pilot tells her they are near Lamia. “Soon they will be here,” she says. “Every day they come over and they bom bom bom and you shut your eyes and you open them again and you get up and you go outside and the houses are just dust – and the people.” She asks him how many he has killed. “As many as I could,” he answers. She tells him to kill them all, every man, woman, and child. She then asks him again what he wants. He tells her he is looking for Joannis. She leads him out the front door and points to the old man by the drinking trough. “There he is,” she says. “That’s him.” The pilot turns around to speak to her again, but she has already disappeared back into the house.