"The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham" is a 1940[1] short story (later expanded in book form in 1957) by English writer Anthony Armstrong about a man involved in a serious car accident. The man recovers only to find himself being stalked by a seemingly identical version of himself.[2]
It is also known as The Case of Mr Pelham.
The book was reprinted in 2021 by B7 Media, available on Amazon.[3]
It was made into an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents which originally aired December 4, 1955, under the title "The Case of Mr. Pelham", and starring Tom Ewell as the victim of his own Doppelgänger. The episode was directed by Hitchcock himself.
turned into full length book form in 1957
The story was adapted for Australian radio in 1959 as an episode of Harry Death's Playhouse.[7]
Anthony Boucher commented on the novel as "a lightly amusing tale of suspense and terror and, read as fantasy, an attractive book"; Boucher, however, also quoted another reviewer who found that, reading the novel as a genre mystery, it was "an extraordinarily irritating piece of cleverness."[10]