Daphne du Maurier has haunted the literary scene for decades and readers of her novels, as well as viewers of Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptions, often have (at least) one of her opening lines in mind… “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…” Rebecca has now undeniably become a classic—it is part of Virago’s “Modern Classics” as is most of her work these days. Virago has reissued her books with introductions by a wide variety of writers and, obviously, admirers. Her short stories are also readily available from Virago, and Patrick McGrath also selected and introduced a collection of them for New York Review Books in 2008. In his introductory comments, McGrath notes that du Maurier’s “imagination is liberated in the short story, where brilliant flashes of originality, pessimism, and even perversity are to be glimpsed.” There is always in her stories a “collision, preferably violent, of humanity and the natural world.” This is easily noticeable in “The Birds,” but “The Blue Lenses” ...
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