Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People (1962)

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Close the doors. Shut the blinds. Turn out the lights. Make that room dark. Get ready for Alfred Hitch­cock Presents Ghost Sto­ries for Young Peo­ple. Orig­i­nal­ly record­ed in 1962, the album fea­tures 11 ghost sto­ries intro­duced by Hitch­cock him­self and then read by actor John Allen. If you were a kid dur­ing the ear­ly 60s, this may bring back some very good mem­o­ries. The record­ing is avail­able on YouTube and Spo­ti­fy, embed­ded below. (Down­load Spo­ti­fy’s soft­ware for free here.)

Here’s a playlist of the tracks:

• The Haunt­ed And The Haunters (The Pirate’s Curse)
• The Magi­cian (’til Death Do Us Part)
• John­ny Takes A Dare (The More The Mer­ri­er)
• The Open Win­dow (Spe­cial Adap­ta­tion)
• The Help­ful Hitch­hik­er
• Jim­my Takes Van­ish­ing Lessons

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