Okay there was a short story in an Alfred Hitchcock book and the last line was “Behind her in the darkness of the living room, someone cleared his throat…” - does anyone have any idea of the name of the short story or the author? Thanks.
I googled what you quoted and it hit on Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
thank you
No that was a book - this was a short story but thanks anyway.
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Looks like he used it in “The Whole Town’s Sleeping” as the last line, more keeping with your op.
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Here’s a PDF of “The Whole Town’s Sleeping”:
That terrified me when I was a kid.
In case you’re interested, what comes next is mentioned in the whole novel, in passing…
Thank you so much!!!
That story was part of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night, published in 1961. It’s an excerpt from Dandelion Wine.
Since this about the last line of a short story in an Alfred Hitchcock book, I thought it was going to be one of my favorites, found in Stories for Late at Night
It’s from Gouveneur Morris (the grandson of the Constitution guy) who wrote Back There in the Grass. The last line is
[spoiler]“How is she?”
“Seems to be pulling through. I heard you fire both barrels. What luck?”
— That’s the end of the story, and he arranged it so it came at the bottom of the page. You turned the page, and it was the next story. I thought it was a misprint, but just a really clever ending.
[/spoiler]
To be precise, it was earlier published separately and later used as a chapter in the book.
Correct. Dandelion Wine, like so many of Bradbury’s early “novels,” are collections of related short stories patched together with new material. “When You Were Sleeping” was first published in McCall’s, September 1950.
The complete Dandelion Wine.