https://barebonesez.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-hitchcock-project-halsted-welles_0205933789.html
In which Jack notes the similarities between the two stories, that have
been noted over the years from the even greater similarities of how both
were adapted US tv anthology series, the Langelaan for *Alfred Hitchcock
Presents: *and the Gilford, published under his "Douglas Farr" pseudonym in
AHMM in 1960, for *Night Gallery. *Apparently, nothing was too explicit
about which Gilford story was adapted by Serling for *NG*, but Peter
Enfantino dug it out for him, and sent him to one of the Dell Books
anthologies drawn from *Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine*, this one with
the typically punning title *Alfred Hitchcock's Down by the Old
Bloodstream, *first published by Dell in 1971 and repackaged in 1981 with
the "'s" removed...where in the acknowledgements, Douglas Farr is cited as
the author, a genuine Gilford pseudonym (perhaps employed because Gilford
had more than one story in an AHMM issue), only someone at Dell (?)
apparently decided that "Douglas Farr" was Really "John Farr" (or some
arguable variation), an occasional pseudonym used by the writer Jack Webb
(John Alfred Webb), and so tagged four Gilford/"D Farr" stories in "AH"
anthologies from AHMM Dell published around the turn of the '70s as by Jack
Webb...no doubt hoping casual browsers might confuse this "Webb" with
either the writer Webb or the radio/television/film actor/writer/producer
Jack, or John Randolph, Webb.
The FictionMags Index has cited the four I refer to thus:
*Webb, Jack*; pseudonym of C. B. Gilford
<http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03464.htm#A16> (1920-2010)
(chron.) <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/i07/i07256.htm#A36>
- * <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/p03/p03511.htm#A196> The
Incomplete Corpse, (ss) *Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine* May 1958
<http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k00/k00322.htm#A9>, as by Douglas
Farr <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02921.htm#A69>
- *Skull Session* ed. Alfred Hitchcock, Dell, 1968
<http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00536.htm#A12>
- * <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/p04/p04239.htm#A180> Lonely
Place, (ss) *Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine* February 1960
<http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k00/k00323.htm#A14>, as by Douglas
Farr <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02921.htm#A69>
- *Murders I Fell in Love With* ed. Alfred Hitchcock, Dell, 1969
<http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00536.htm#A1>
- * <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/p04/p04701.htm#A142> A
Miracle Is Arranged, (ss) *Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine* July
1960 <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k00/k00324.htm#A4>, as
by Douglas
Farr <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02921.htm#A69>
- *Down by the Old Bloodstream* ed. Alfred Hitchcock, Dell, 1971
<http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00534.htm#A10>
- * <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/p05/p05347.htm#A161> One
November Night, (ss) *Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine* March 1960
<http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k00/k00323.htm#A15>, as by Douglas
Farr <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02921.htm#A69>
- *Murders on the Half-Skull* ed. Alfred Hitchcock, Dell, 1970
<http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00536.htm#A2>
I understand Gilford might've had other concerns as early as '69, so
might've not been aware of this at all...but I sure would like to know, and
have long liked to know, who was editing these AHMM-extract volumes for
Dell (as opposed to pre-AHMM Dell "Hitchcock" anthologies ghost-edited by
Don Ward, the Dell reprints of the Random House anthologies ghost-edited by
Robert Arthur till his death, and then by Harold Q. Masur, the Davis
Publications volumes mostly edited by AHMM editors, or the Random House
handsomely illustrated YA anthologies edited once by Muriel Fuller, most of
them by Robert Arthur, and two after Arthur's death by Henry Veit).
I suspect such an odd bit of shoddiness such as this probably points, at
very least, away from the magazine staff.
TM
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