Don't Look Now
and Other Stories

Gripping, absolutely gripping – my listening to three Daphne du Maurier tales on audio: No Motive and two from this collection, Don’t Look Now and the author’s famous The Birds. Each reading spanning an hour and a half, the storytelling so compelling, picking up dramatic momentum every single minute......more

A couple travel to Venice after their daughter passes away. They encounter two sisters who say they have seen their daughter alive. As the couple delve into the mystery, they uncover a shocking discovery. A short, but gripping tale!......more

Efficient both in language and plot, I might like du Maurier’s short stories even better than her novels. This says a lot, as short stories almost never wow me. I was blown away by both Rebecca, and House on the Strand, but that was when I was 15. I read My Cousin Rachel a few years back, and enjoye......more

Daphne Du Maurier is very British. And I am very not. Her language leaves me at a cool, unengaged distance, mostly—which clearly isn't desirable for the kind of fiction she traffics in (i.e., horror, basically, but of a more cerebral variety). Two of the stories in this collection ('The Birds' and '......more

An absolute classic and an utterly weird one. The movie version of the story is equally disturbing and effective. The ending both of the book and film is genuinely terrifying. It almost gave me a heart attack the first time I watched it.......more