Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of
bone-chilling tales, this collection includes The Birds, the basis for
the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title, and other creepy
classics.
Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of
the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and
Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life--love,
grief, jealousy--into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no
less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her
imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense.
Patrick McGrath's revelatory new selection of du Maurier's stories shows
her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child
reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the
beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man's abuse by
turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a
beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart.
McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier's long career and includes
surprising discoveries together with famous stories like "The Birds."
Don't Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.