The famous English director Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899–1980), dubbed in the West the “Shakespeare of cinematography,” liked to say: “My goal is to amuse the public.” And he achieved this not only through his detective, mystical and fantasy horror films, but also by compiling anthologies on the same topics. An example is the collection of short stories “Vanishing,” intended, as Hitchcock noted with a sly smile, for “bedtime reading.” Hitchcock is not a fan of savoring the actual bloody details of a crime. His area of interest is showing human psychology and creating an atmosphere of “suspense,” a constant expectation of something terrible. Judge for yourself how “funny” it is, looking at the night.