Alfred Hitchcock speaking:"You may not care for some of these stories because you think them too shocking, macabre or grotesque... Eerie tales of the supernatural make up part of the book but the chief staple is that ever popular crime - murder."These sinister and spine-chilling stories by such famous authors as Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Philip MacDonald, and William Sansom are so awesome, so frightening that, say the BBC, "they would not only send the viewers screaming up the walls but would probably qualify the cast for a straightjacket."It's no wonder they're stories they wouldn't let me do on TV. Twenty-five tales to horrify - terrify - and petrify!