«Te aseguro que el título de este libro es una descripción totalmente exacta del contenido. No creo que mi madre me hubiera contado las historias que he recopilado aquí, ni aunque hubieran estado a su alcance. Te espera todo un abanico de emociones, exceptuando, claro está, aquellos sentimientos más tiernos y amables, con los que yo no tengo nada que ver…» Alfred Hitchcock CON RELATOS DE RAY BRADBURY, SHIRLEY JACKSON, ROALD DAHL, MARGARET ST. CLAIR Y MUCHOS MÁS.

Best read in a brightly lit room, here are eight stories by well-known authors together with a novelette by Jane Rice and a full length novel by Theodore Sturgeon. For those with a developed taste in the macabre, these tales chosen by the master ensure that their haunting horror remains in the mind long after the lights are out.

Alfred Hitchcock speaking: "... the stories in this book all gave me one or more of the pleasurable sensations associated with fear. Some quite terrified me. Some profoundly disturbed me... Others prickled my nerve ends pleasurably, touched my spine with chills, or made me swallow hard... Some did several of these things at once. On that basis, I offer them to you..."

Alfred Hitchcock speaking: "An easy chair, a darkened room and a pool of light offer the ideal setting in which to enjoy the varied attractions of these tales... This time, as you will see, I have assembled a sample of stories embracing many aspects of the mystery tale..." A Month of Mystery - Book One. Sixteen stories of shock quality told in scalp-prickling style by such masters as Ross Macdonald and Michael Gilbert. To be read at night. Preferably not too late at night...

Beware, beware... Prepare to enter the Master's torture chamber. For here is a truly alarming brood of tales pulsating with delicious evil, the macabre, and all the mystery and suspense for which you crave. Ross Macdonald, Theodore Sturgeon, Harold Q. Masur, Talmage Powell - as you turn the pages, and the house darkens, you will hear the Master chuckling in the shadows. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin...

From the high priest of horror and suspense, prepare yourselves for another disquieting journey into the depths of macabre. Ross Macdonald, Harold Q. Masur, Ray Russell, Bill Pronzini - take your places for a succulent meal from the finest cuisine. But beware the aftertaste, you may never be the same again.