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Death on Television

The Best of Henry Slesar's Alfred Hitchcock Stories

Death on Television( )
Author: Slesar, Henry
Editor: Nevins, Francis M.
Greenberg, Martin H.
Nevins, Francis M.
Series title:Mystery Makers Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8093-1500-0
Publication Date:May 1989
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $21.95
Book Description:

Henry Slesar wrote more than 40 stories that were chosen for the classic television show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Irony, not suspense, is the key ingredient in the nineteen stories by Slesar offered in this collection. While irony often seems a by-product of cynicism, Anatole France called it "the last phase of disillusion." For Hitchcock and his writers, irony, not just suspense, was the basis of storytelling, along with its two constant...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 8 x 0.875 Inches
Book Weight:1.03 Pounds
Author Biography
Slesar, Henry (Author)
Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 - June 25, 2011) was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books; he was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Some of his anthologies included: Past Imperfect (2001), Once Upon a Galaxy (2002) and Sirius: The Dog Star (2004).

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