Table of Contents

Born Into the Theatre Duty, Honour, Country The Return (Play) - Opening Lines from The Prologue Shakespearean Actor Keith Chesterton - My Most Unforgettable Character Magic in Montmartre Stage Melodramaticist Blackmail (The Play) - The Knife Murder Alfred Hitchcock and My Early Talkies The Secret of the Loch - The Climax and Knife Scene Alfred Hitchcock, A Strange and Bewildering Character The Study of the Bennett-Hitchcock Partnership Cause for Alarm Mr. Shakespeare Comes to Hollywood C. Aubrey Smith and the British Film Colony Errol Flynn Film Colony Apprehension The Spy at Split Rock Hollywood Propagandist Hitler is Dead - MOI Proaganda Submittal An Immigrant Miilitia Cecil B. deMille and the Secret Agent Freddie McEvoy - A Suave Villain Into the Breach The Problem of the Purloined Portable The British Ministry of Information Laurence Olivier Cecil B. DeMille and My Hollywood Crusade Almost Into Eternity Into Hitler's Bunker Beware the Ides of March Bewitched - The Climax - Original Version of The Night of the Demon Irwin Allen Terror - Excerpt from an Idea for a TV Series Betty Bennett, A Black Swan Curtain Call The Future of Suspense Writers Guild of America Screen Laureate Sunset Journey The Avenger Blow Bugle Blow - Excerpt of lines before the Climax and Close Last - A Tribute

About the Author

Ruth Ann Musick, professor emeritus of English at Fairmont State College, West Virginia, is the author of The Telltale Lilac Bush.

Reviews

"A delightfully chilling collection." -- Southern Living

"As a folklorist's reference, it's a treasure." -- Green Man Review

"Here are murder, mayhem, buried fortunes, vengeful ghosts, reincarnations, graveyards and corpses." -- Come-All-Ye

"Highly readable, well-turned tales designed to entertain and delight... replete with haunted houses, omens of impending doom, reincarnated cats and dogs, and avenging spirits." -- West Virginia History