Death on Television: The Best of Henry Slesar's Alfred Hitchcock Stories

by Henry Slesar

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809315009
• ISBN13: 9780809315000
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.0"