Cross-media picks for Alfred Hitchcock fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a sensibility Hitchcock fans will recognise instantly: ordinary people caught in webs of deception, guilt, and paranoia they can't quite name. The settings are domestic — a marriage, a quiet village, a routine evening — but something is wrong, and nobody is saying it aloud. Whether it's a claustrophobic game, an anthology of short mysteries, or a slow-burn crime series, these works understand that dread is most effective inside a perfectly normal room. Suspicion, The Shadow Line, Twelve Minutes, Loretta — each one turns the familiar into a trap.
Film
Suspicion
A wife's creeping suspicion about her charming, debt-ridden husband makes every small lie feel lethal.
Film
Stage Fright
An actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence — and finds truth and performance dangerously intertwined.
Film
Under Capricorn
Buried colonial secrets and a fragile marriage unravel when a newcomer disturbs the careful silence.
Film
Hitchcock
A director risks his own money to make a film the studio refuses to back.
Film
Sabotage
A husband's hidden double life brings catastrophe to the family sheltered unknowingly beside him.
Film
Blackmail
A detective's girlfriend kills in self-defence, then lives in terror as the investigation closes in.
Film
Number Seventeen
A detective hiding among jewel thieves in an abandoned house — deception within deception.
Film
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Parents silenced by a kidnapping must stop an assassination they cannot speak about to anyone.
Series
Suspicion
A curated NBC anthology of mystery dramas, executive-produced by Alfred Hitchcock, built around suspense.
Series
Suspense
Short, self-contained suspenseful tales — the anthology format at its most concentrated.
Series
Suspense
Adaptations of Poe, Christie, and Dickens drawn from the classic suspense radio programme.
Series
Paranoid
A rural murder spirals into a Europe-spanning conspiracy guided by a shadowy, anonymous informant.
Series
Thriller
Boris Karloff hosts macabre, crime-tinged tales described as distinctly Hitchcockian in tone.
Series
The Shadow Line
Cops and criminals investigate the same murder, each crossing the moral line they swore to hold.
Series
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
Anonymous threatening letters poison a quiet English village until Miss Marple follows the paper trail.
Series
In Suspicious Circumstances
Reenactments of real murder cases — some involving miscarriages of justice — told with unflinching weight.
Game
Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
A crash survivor insists his family was in the car — a thriller about memory and self-doubt.
Game
The 39 Steps
A classic adventure story adapted for the screen by Hitchcock — now playable, page by page, as a game.
Game
Loretta
A betrayed wife draws you into her crimes — and makes you complicit in the nightmare she builds.
Game
The Ratline
Hunt Nazi fugitives through a 1971 detective thriller by analysing evidence before the trail vanishes.
Game
Twelve Minutes
A romantic evening turns nightmare when a detective breaks in and accuses your wife of murder.
Game
Close To The Sun
A journalist trapped on a colossal, isolated vessel discovers something terrible has happened aboard.
Game
Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer
A series of murders across continents linked by one killer's chilling, theatrical signature.
Game
Scratches: Director's Cut
A writer alone in an old house finds the silence slowly replaced by something deeply unsettling.
Book
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A curated anthology spanning crime, suspense, detection, and the macabre — the full spectrum of dread.
Book
Vertigo
A critical study of Hitchcock's *Vertigo* — one of cinema's most dissected psychological thrillers.
Book
Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbinders in Suspense
Short fiction from the masters of suspense — Connell, Sayers, Dahl — selected for maximum unease.
Book
Death on Television
Irony-laced crime stories whose punchlines arrive just as the trap snaps shut around the characters.
Book
Miss Marple meets murder
Miss Marple investigates a murder at a film actress's country home — cosy surface, lethal undercurrent.
Book
Take Two at Bedtime
A new companion to a wealthy invalid senses something is wrong — and no one around her will confirm it.
Book
The Case of the Nervous Accomplice
Perry Mason untangles a scheme where jealousy, stock manipulation, and murder share the same motive.
Book
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Eleven short thrillers chosen to unsettle — the kind of fiction designed to keep you awake.
Start with the TV series The Shadow Line for its moral ambiguity, or Paranoid for a modern murder mystery that spirals across Europe. For classic anthology suspense, Suspense (1949) and Thriller (1960) are made from the same cloth.
Yes — Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense collects crime fiction from writers including Richard Connell and Dorothy L. Sayers. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1969) is another broad anthology spanning suspense, detection, and the macabre.
Twelve Minutes traps you in a domestic nightmare built on paranoia and false accusation. Loretta and Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo both explore psychological guilt and unreliable memory in interactive form.