This collection of short stories enabled du Maurier's devoted readership to see her, for the first time in a very different guise . . . as an exponent of the sinister and macabre.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA With an Introduction by 'Britain's most sophisticated film critic' David Thomson, THE TIMES
'A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror' OBSERVER
'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN
'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . .'
A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world.
Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 89) was born in London, the daughter of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of George du Maurier, the author and artist. She began writing short stories and articles in 1928 and in 1931 her first novel, THE LOVING SPIRIT, was published. It was the novel REBECCA that launched her into the literary stratosphere and made her one of the most popular authors of all time.