Alfred Hitchcock presents nine short stories that are sure to make young readers shiver (while they get a good dose of some fine writing!).Introduction • essay by Alfred HitchcockThe Mystery of Rabbit Run • (1946) • Jack BechdoltJimmy Takes Vanishin
In an interesting turnabout, the Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of a British family to whom an American prisoner of war has been entrusted. Technically the young prisoner is in Uncle Lawrence's custody, but the children soon forge a forbidden