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Panels I went to at #NecronomiconPVD:
The Daphne du Maurier panel discussed The Birds as you'd expect, but I didn't realize that she also wrote Don't Look Now. Panelists also discussed a bunch of her stories that were weird fiction, such as The Blue Lenses (a woman regains sight after an eye operation and now sees people as having animal heads) or The Pool (a small child finds a pool in the forest that seems to lead to another world).
The Arthur Machen panel gave a well-organized account of his long life and career, focusing on the well-known books (The Great God Pan; The White People) but also the flap over his story The Bowmen and his late-career work.
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‘Poirot’s hotel was the place to stay in Istanbul’: the book that inspired my travels
By Guardian StaffFalling in love with a novel motivated these five travel writers to immerse themselves in locations from the Yukon and Kyrgyzstan to the Côte d’Azur
#Literarytrips #Travel #Books #Travelwriting #Culture #Europeholidays #DaphneduMaurier #AgathaChristie #JackLondon #UnitedKingdomholidays #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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Today is Daphne du Maurier’s birthday!
Few #writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream. Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned.
Have you read any of her #novels?
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CW: The Alibi Spoilers
I've been reading some of Daphne du Maurier's short stories and they are quite good. But I always get a sense that I'm missing something, or what I read isn't actually what happened.
Du Maurier never quite gives it to you straight. Things are said, things are alluded to, but you are often left feeling you haven't been given all the answers.
The Alibi is one such story. It's casually dark, with Anna Kaufman tying her infant son up all the time, and it is full of surprises with a potential killer suddenly finding an unexpected passion for painting.
But the end, when the man confesses: I'm not entirely sure what happened. I read about a man renting a room, taking up painting ... but maybe none of that happened.
Because he didn't notice Kaufman was pregnant. And why confess to something he initially wanted to do, but didn't actually do?
One reading is he has no alibi, and cannot provide proof of innocence. Another reading is that he feels guilty and his intention to commit murder is as good as committing it because he lied and hid his true intentions.
But another reading is that none of what we're told actually happens and what he is accused of is the actual crime he committed.
idk her stories just do that to me.
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In Chapter 11 of Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel, and oh, oh Mr. Philip Ashley…
You really ARE a giant dum-dum of a little boy, aren't you?
Like, I love du Maurier and I've actually managed to not spoil the plot of this one for myself before I read it, so I know we're pre GOTHIC PLOT TWIST - and I can't wait to see how Daphne tortures her characters - but oh. Oh Philip. Such an empty noodle on top of your neck. You could be malevolent or tragic. But right now you're just so oblivious.
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Actually -- and I might be imagining this -- but #DaphneDuMaurier's writing style reminds me quite a lot of #StephenKing's writing style.
Not sure why.
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I'm rereading The Blue Lenses so I can write a blog post about it.
And that's the thing about #DaphneDuMaurier's work; you kind of have to read them a couple of times because they're so intriguing.
At least, I have to ...
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I'm #reading Don't Look Now by #DaphneDuMaurier and so far it's good.
But it's very readable, with the characters' quirks and the general way they behave.
And, you know, Stephen King wrote the foreword to the collection of short stories I'm reading, and I think there is something distinctly similar between King's written style and Du Maurier's.
They're quite similar I think. But as much as I loved Misery and The Shining, I think Rebecca comes out tops.
I think I'd lean to Daphne as the better writer.
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#DaphneDuMaurier is a fantastic writer.
It's not often you read a #ShortStory and really enjoy it and have it stuck in your head.
The Blue Lenses is just brilliant. It is silly yet touches on something more troubling. Yet, Maurier never really says things explicitly -- a bit like #Rebecca -- and the reader has to piece things together.
Her works can be quite cryptic and they leave you with questions.
The ending of Blue Lenses is brilliant. I wasn't quite sure where it was heading, but the ending doesn't disappoint.
But the ending is cryptic and it's one of those stories you have to re-read to pick up on the nuances you might have missed.
But I love how she uses an absurd occurrence to touch upon underlying themes. How the something strange actually turns out to be the subconsciousness at work, and turns out to be revealing more of reality.
It's very good.
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I'm reading Daphne Du Maurier's Blue Lenses and I haven't finished it yet but I want to know what happens to the snake head.
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Love That Brooding Feeling? 4 Free Gothic Romances to Watch if you Loved Wuthering Heights
Captivated by the Gothic romance, tragedy, and windswept drama of Wuthering Heights? These public domain classics will satisfy your craving for more tales of doomed love, dark secrets, and emotional intensity. Rebecca (1940) Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine brings Daphne du Maurier's haunting Gothic novel to life. Like Wuthering Heights, it features a brooding male lead haunted by the past. A naive heroine and the ghost of a former love that […] -
Alfred Hitchcock – „Die Vögel“ (1962)Die Natur schlägt zurück. Ich glaube, auf den Konsens können wir uns irgendwie einigen. So lautet auch die bequeme Lesart dieses Films von Alfred Hitchcock. Das ist ein Horror, als würden wir hier in 119 Minuten dem ökologischen Gleichgewicht beim Umkippen zusehen können. Doch für mich ist diese Geschichte viel weniger eine Parabel als eine echte Zumutung. Und weil es vermutlich immer noch Menschen gibt, die diesen Film noch nicht gesehen haben, schreibe ich mir das hier nochmal von der Seele. (ARTE, Wh.)
Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/alfred-hitchcock-die-voegel-1962/ -
#1172 Denys Val Baker (ed) - Cornish Short Stories. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976, 1st edition.
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Me got a book of #DaphneDuMaurier creepy chilling stories!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Rebecca is probably the first book I've read where as soon as I finished it, I wanted to re-read it.
It's both straight forward and enigmatic at the same time.
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I'm halfway through #DaphneDuMaurier's Rebecca and it just gets better.
It inspires with me a plethora of emotions as I identify with the character. I feel the awkwardness and the embarrassment and the injustice and the so on.
It's just so very good.
I've seen the movie and I don't quite remember all that happen -- which is good -- but what I do remember hasn't happened yet, so I wonder if they changed the ending for the film.
I will soon find out ...
Also, this book would much better make a TV series than a movie. It's full of nuance and a great deal of care is needed to reproduce all the minor incidents well.
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Just a quick reminder to say that Rebecca by #DaphneDuMaurier is a really good book
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Who's behind some of the season's spookiest stories? #DaphneDuMaurier
She Was One of #Literature’s Most Misunderstood Writers. A New Book Corrects the Record. https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/daphne-du-maurier-books-rebecca-after-midnight-short-stories-review.html
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Ooh yes!
One thing also about #DaphneDuMaurier's Rebecca is how well the prose flows from one scene to the next. It's masterly done.
It starts as a dream, then goes to her linking the dream to her past, then we are further in the past with her job with an older woman. But it isn't initially explained what her job is and what the situation is.
But it all flows along perfectly, introducing people and ideas in a casual way, sometimes without warning.
It's a very enjoyable read.
It's written in first person, which is often a style that is very readable and engaging, and allows for sudden conceptual leaps.
Me like.
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I'm reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
And it's really good.
Me like.
Only three chapters in.
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LB:
I would like to add that the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, which served as inspiration for this film, is a plagiarism of A Sucessora by Carolina Nabuco.
https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/115174579195606707
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A nice bargain - three great books for only ¥500 in Jinbocho.
#books #DaphneDuMaurier #AnaisNin #DontLookNow #TheBirds #Jinbocho ##神田神保町 -
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A belated review of 'The Birds and Other Stories' by #DaphneDuMaurier for the #1952Club.
https://calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/brds/
