A very good collection of stories. I would certainly not want to read “The Whistling Room” late at night—that was the scariest story in the collection. Some other highlights: “It’s a Good Life”, which was made into an episode of “The Twilight Zone”, and the Roald Dahl story “The Sound Machine”, which I’d previously read in a Dahl-only collection. Can’t remember whether I’d read “The Fly” before, but it did feel familiar. It was very good, just giving me déjà lu!

I would absolutely recommend this collection if you like classic suspense short stories, maybe with a dash of sci-fi. ( )

This anthology includes a novelette, "the Fly" by George Langelaan, and 10 short stories:
It's a good life by Jerome Bixby
Lady's man by Ruth Chatterton
The Sound Machine by Roald Dahl
Pieces of Silver by Brett Halliday
The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson
Told for the Truth by Cyril Hume
The Mugging by Edward L. Perry
Finger! Finger! by Margaret Ronan
A Cry from the Penthouse by Henry Slesar
and The People Next Door by Pauline C. Smith.
Most of these stories are crime stories or tales of the supernatural, suspenseful and provocative. Langelaan's "The Fly" was adapted into the well known horror movie. ( )

Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night by Alfred Hitchcock (1961)