{"id":5864,"date":"2017-12-04T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:03:52","slug":"alfred-hitchcocks-hard-day-at-the-scaffold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/alfred-hitchcocks-hard-day-at-the-scaffold","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Hitchcock’s Hard Day at the Scaffold"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HardHard Day at the Scaffold<\/em> is a solid collection of short stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock that I read over the course of a year for the Deal Me In Short Story Challenge<\/a>. Hitchcock’s anthologies always feature darkly humorous stories with a generous dose of creepiness, and this one was no different. Though this collection had fewer memorable stories than others I’ve read, it was still enjoyable. My favorite was “One on a Desert Island” by Donald Westlake, the tragicomic story of what can happen to a man’s mind when stranded on a tiny rock in the middle of the Pacific.<\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of TV shows like\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Presents<\/em> or\u00a0The Twilight Zone<\/em>, then you’ll likely enjoy this anthology.<\/p>\n

Here are the stories from the collection, along with the dates I read them:<\/p>\n

A\u2663 \u201cThe Baby\u201d by Jonathan Craig\u00a0\u2013 Finished 5\/28\/2017<\/strong>
\n2\u2663\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t Live in a Coffin\u201d by Helen Nielsen \u2013\u00a0Finished 12\/3\/2017<\/strong>
\n3\u2663 \u201cA Hundred Times\u201d by Syd Hoff \u2013\u00a0Finished 2\/12\/2017<\/strong>
\n4\u2663 \u201cWeep for the Guilty\u201d by Henry Slesar\u00a0\u2013 Finished 9\/10\/2017<\/strong>
\n5\u2663 \u201cPoint the Man Out!\u201d by Duane Decker\u00a0\u2013 Finished 9\/3\/2017<\/strong>
\n6\u2663 \u201cCrooks, Satchels, and Selma\u201d by Michael Brett\u00a0\u2013 Finished 9\/24\/2017<\/strong>
\n7\u2663 \u201cNot Exactly Love\u201d by Fletcher Flora\u00a0\u2013 Finished 5\/21\/2017<\/strong>
\n8\u2663 \u201cThe Swinging Sheriff\u201d by Ed Lacy\u00a0\u2013 Finished 6\/4\/2017<\/strong>
\n9\u2663 \u201cOne on a Desert Island\u201d by Donald E. Westlake\u00a0\u2013 Finished 8\/27\/2017<\/strong>
\n10\u2663 \u201cBite of Revenge\u201d by James McKimmey, Jr. \u2013\u00a0Finished 3\/5\/2017<\/strong>
\nJ\u2663 \u201cLily Bell\u201d by Richard Deming\u00a0\u2013 Finished 10\/15\/2017<\/strong>
\nQ\u2663 \u201cFlora and Her Fauna\u201d by C. B. Gilford \u2013\u00a0Finished 1\/8\/2017<\/strong>
\nK\u2663 \u201cThe Pulque Vendor\u201d by Hal Ellson \u2013\u00a0Finished 7\/9\/2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

K\u2666<\/span>\u00a0\u201cProlonged Visit\u201d by Hal Dresner\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Finished 1\/15\/2017<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hard Day at the Scaffold is a solid collection of short stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock that I read over the course of a year for the Deal Me In Short Story Challenge. Hitchcock’s anthologies always feature darkly humorous stories with a generous dose of creepiness, and this one was no different. Though this collection had fewer memorable stories than others I’ve read, it was still enjoyable. My favorite was “One on a Desert Island” by Donald Westlake, the tragicomic story of what can happen to a man’s...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Book Review: Alfred Hitchcock's Hard Day at the Scaffold #dealmein2017","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1057,5],"tags":[885,36,842,881,882,122],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-books","tag-alfred-hitchcock","tag-book-recommendations","tag-book-reviews","tag-deal-me-in-2017","tag-deal-me-in-short-story-challenge","tag-short-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scaffold_banner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1wA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5869,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions\/5869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}