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catevari's review
3.0
I read this (and a number of other Hitchcock Presents books) as a young reader, opening the door to my lifelong fondness for horror and suspense. In rediscovering this anthology, I was kind of amazed at how much and how well I remembered these stories though I hadn't retained their titles or authors.
Even given how much older and more jaded I am, the stories hold up pretty well for the intervening years and even the Evils of the Orient subtext in several of the stories couldn't ruin my pleasure. For horror aficionados, the material's probably a little dated, as most of the stories were first published in the sixties or earlier, but, like Lovecraft or Poe, there's a certain creep factor cachet that can't be dismissed or outdone, even by the torture porn of the modern age.
Even given how much older and more jaded I am, the stories hold up pretty well for the intervening years and even the Evils of the Orient subtext in several of the stories couldn't ruin my pleasure. For horror aficionados, the material's probably a little dated, as most of the stories were first published in the sixties or earlier, but, like Lovecraft or Poe, there's a certain creep factor cachet that can't be dismissed or outdone, even by the torture porn of the modern age.
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