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Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now

Stories

by Daphne du Maurier, selected and with an introduction by Patrick McGrath

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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.

These stories are included in the book.

Don't Look Now 
The Birds
Escort
Split Second
Kiss Me Again, Stranger
The Blue Lenses
La Sainte-Vierge
Indiscretion
Monte Verita

by Daphne du Maurier, selected and with an introduction by Patrick McGrath

Additional Book Information

Series: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 9781590172889
Pages: 368
Publication Date:

Praise

Don't Look Now is a stunning collection of du Maurier's particular brand of intricately plotted story. The mesmerizing title story was faithfully adapted by Nicholas Roeg, and the volume also includes the creepily riveting tale The Birds,... filmed by Alfred Hitchcock.
— The Atlantic

Her tales of the macabre are among the best of their genre.
— Michael Dirda

Du Maurier served up more sinister fare than the Bronté's...
— The New York Times Book Review

That whooshing sound you hear is your mind being sucked into the brilliant black depths of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic imagination, the instant you begin reading the eponymous first story in Don't Look Now....Novelist Patrick McGrath's introduction reacquaints us with the intense, eccentric, psychologically deft du Maurier, a master storyteller with a touch as smooth as a raven's wing.
— O, the Oprah Magazine

This new collection of her macabre tales, which features many unavailable for years, is an ideal treat for Halloween.
— Thicket

[Du Maurier] was indeed a serious writer, a brilliant innovative practitioner of her craft, as these stories consistently demonstrate...Readers of these wonderful stories will go to places and feelings they never dreamed of—all because Daphne du Maurier possessed such an amazing imagination and such a capacity to make it all seem credible in her sturdy prose.
— Washington Times

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