by Daphne du Maurier
Years ago I read Daphne du Maurier’s spellbinding Rebecca, and to this day I believe it’s one of the best novels I ever picked up. So how are her short stories? My impressions:
Don’t Look Now features nine du Maurier tales of the supernatural. She was a versatile writer, in that her narrators are young, middle-aged, male, and female. The stories range in tone from whimsical to dead serious. Rod Serling might have been impressed by du Maurier, because most of her stories have nifty, Twilight Zone-style endings. In fact, I think Serling might have borrowed some of her plots (we know that Hitchcock did). Best of the stories here: “The Birds,” “Don’t Look Now,” and “Monte Verita.”
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