After Midnight

INTRODUCED BY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER STEPHEN KING A STUNNING NEW HARDBACK COLLECTION OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S DARKEST STORIES Amid the reflections and twisting alleyways of Venice, a grieving couple are haunted by the past. On a sharp December day, the wind changes - and the birds begin to gather. A group of wartime scientists attempt to capture the power of death, an eye operation reveals a monstrous reality, and a woman returns home to find she doesn't exist. From murderous desires to supernatural forces, du Maurier's masterful short stories stare into the dark heart of our relationships: between men and women, humanity and nature, love and obsession, the future and the past. Whatever you do, don't look now . . . This brand new collection brings together thirteen of du Maurier's greatest uncanny stories for the first time - including 'The Birds' and 'Don't Look Now'. *** PRAISE FOR DAPHNE DU MAURIER 'These stories are staggeringly good' Stephen King 'Masterful, troubling and wickedly seductive' Sarah Perry 'The characters are incredibly vivid, and the twists superb' Clare Mackintosh 'Moody and unnerving' Gillian Flynn 'The perfect story by the perfect storyteller' Joanna Cannon 'Du Maurier is mistress of the sleight of hand in fiction' Maggie O'Farrell 'Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and The Scapegoat . . . made me want to be a writer' Katy Hays 'Will chill you as much as any thriller. I love it' Alice Slater 'She's so deviant. So fascinating. Every time I read her, my sympathy lies with a different character' Emerald Fennell, director of Saltburn 'A dark, brooding psychological thriller, hauntingly beautiful' S J Watson 'Brooding, dangerous and engrossing' Kit de Waal 'She was able to make worlds in which people and even houses are mysterious and mutable, not as they seem; haunted rooms in which disembodied spirits sometimes dance at absolute liberty' Olivia Laing 'The master of slow-burning menace' Stacey Halls 'A masterclass of the genre' Sarah Pinborough 'A great gothic writer' Kate Mosse 'Daphne du Maurier remains the indisputable queen of the sophisticated literary thriller . . .often imitated and never, ever surpassed' Laura Shepperson