Eggp’s Reviews > Scream Along With Me: Alfred Hitchcock Presents > Status Update

16. Henry Slesar - The Candidate, 4 stars. Ruthless businessman takes every opportunity to slag off an older colleague, gets contacted about a secret society.
17. Theodore Sturgeon - It, 3 stars. Curious sludge creature wanders around ripping plants/animals/people apart for science, does serious damage to farming family.

14. Donald E. Westlake - Journey To Death, 2 stars. Ship sinks with two men trapped in the billiards room, they crack up waiting for rescue.
15. Algis Budrys - The Master Of The Hounds, 4 stars. Selfish artist husband pushes his wife around, rents a summer cottage from a forceful war hero.

11. Robert Somerlott - Evening At The Black House, 3 stars. Man visits nervous friends for dinner, tells them he was being followed earlier.
12. William Wood - One Of The Dead, 2 stars. Middle-aged couple builds a new house, flirtatious neighbor puts a strain on their marriage.
13. Robert Specht - The Real Thing, 3 stars. Nasty adult bully plays pranks on a simple-minded man, convinces him vampires are real.

08. Margaret St. Clair - The Estuary, 3 stars. Scavenger of rotting ship parts ignores his young workers worries about strange noises in the hull.
09. William Sambrot - Tough Town, 3 stars. Door-to-door salesman has a terrible day, is pursued relentlessly by the townsfolk.
10. T.H. White - The Troll, 3 stars. Otherwise sane man peeks through a keyhole and witnesses a troll eating a woman, troll knows he can see it.

Wiki: "If one wanted to find a wise woman, one went to the rims of the Hebrides; on the coast of Brittany one sought the mass of St. Secaire."

05. Thomas M. Disch - Casablanca, 4 stars. Americans on holiday retain their 'murican attitude despite the USA getting nuked into oblivion.
06. Adobe James - The Road To Mictlantecutli, 3 stars. Criminal escapes the hangman once again, but gets into big trouble in the desert.
07. Ellis Peters - Guide To Doom, 3 stars. Inquisitive tourist is given a private tour of the well a country girl drowned herself in.

Wiki: "Come on, I'll give you a ride to Mictlantecutli's ranch . . . you can call for help from there."