#HITCHCOCK DEATH DREAM MOVIE#

The image shows a photo of the Welles book, and images drawn from AbeBooks of the Hitchcock books. (These books also had abridged and sometimes retitled paperback editions, as detailed at SFE.)

Their contents are drawn from a mix of fantasy, mystery, and mainstream magazine sources. The latter does index half a dozen large anthologies published by Random House (and credited to editor Robert Arthur) in the 1960s and '70s, familiar in those decades from SF and Mystery Guild book club editions. Most of these dozens of books are not indexed by isfdb or in William Contento's Locus Index.

#HITCHCOCK DEATH DREAM MOVIE#

SFE's Hitchcock page lists dozens of further titles, all the way to the late 1980s, many of them keyed to Hitchcock's popularity as the affably macabre host of his TV anthology show from 1955 to 1965, and fame as a movie director. I propose that a crucial aspect of Psycho’s design, one that relates to Hitchcock films as a whole, is its thematization of a concept that I call the death-mother. Don Ward edited at least one of these actual editors of others are unknown. Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho (1960) is a significant work on many levelsto Hitchcock’s career, to film history, to the horror genre. The back cover is a map-illustration of Bradbury's 'The Million-Year Picnic' (see image at isfdb).Īnthologies credited to Alfred Hitchcock appeared as far back as 1945, several of the earliest in the same 'Dell Mapback' paperback editions as the Orson Welles book. SFE indicates the actual editor as Don Ward.

Also in the book are notable stories by Ray Bradbury (2), Isaac Asimiov, Fredric Brown, and others. The highlight of Orson Welles' small paperback is the script of the famous 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast of 1938, eleven years before. Here are anthologies credited to celebrity film directors, though in all cases they were (of course) ghost-edited.

Hitchcock death dream