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Daphne du Maurier


Daphne du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre

Daphne du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre

Daphne du Maurier

This sumptuous volume celebrates the 80th birthday of one of the best-known and most-loved storytellers in the English language today, Daphne du Maurier.

Here are six masterpieces of the imagination, illustrated in glowing color by prize-winning artist, Michael Foreman.

Don't Look Now, a classic story of the macabre, opens the collection, followed by The Apple Tree, The Blue Lenses, The Birds, The Alibi and Not After Midnight.

Table of Contents:
• Preface: Note to the Reader • (1987) • essay by Daphne du Maurier
• Don't Look Now • (1970)
• The Apple Tree • (1952)
• The Blue Lenses • (1959)
• The Birds • (1952)
• The Alibi • non-genre • (1959)
• Not After Midnight • (1971)

Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now

Daphne du Maurier

John and Laura, a couple holidaying in Venice while trying to recover from the emotional devastation of the death of their young daughter, encounter a pair of elderly identical twins, one of whom claims to have the second sight. A string of odd and increasingly sinister events follows.

This novelette originally appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, December 1970. It has been anthologized and collected a number of times.

It was the basis for the 1973 movie Don't Look Now.

The Birds

The Birds

Daphne du Maurier

The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from the house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field whilst above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him. In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food--first the seagulls, then birds of prey, and finally even small birds--all turn against mankind. The nightmarish vision appealed to Hitchcock who turned it into the celebrated film.

This novelette originally appeared in Good Housekeeping, October 1952. It has been anthologized and collected many times.

It was the basis for the 1963 movie The Birds.

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