BrokenTune 6 years ago

Was Kiss Me Again, Stranger the one in the hotel room?

The better to see you, my dear 6 years ago

No, the one about the usher girl and the trip on the bus ending on the cemetery

BrokenTune 6 years ago

Ah, that's the one. :) Thanks. I've read the short stories a few years ago and was trying to remember which one is which.

BrokenTune 6 years ago

I think the story I was thinking off was The Rendesvous, which is in another collection of her stories. I had two books out from the library at the time.

Anyway, I also remember The Appletree. :)

Her stories are really good, and not what I expected after reading her novels.

Are you continuing with Du Maurier?

The better to see you, my dear 6 years ago

They were really good, and not what I was expecting. I did not even know she had written the story in which Hitchcock's movie was based, so it was a complete and gratifying surprise.
I own a novel of hers that have still pending: The Glass-blowers... which was translated as "Through the storm" annoyingly (and baffle-inducing) enough. It is not auspicious for my nitpicking ways.

Awogfli - Bookcroc 6 years ago

Ah I had another collection called British crime classics- with the birds, the little Photographer, the Old man and 4 others

a reading life 6 years ago

I own this collection and I agree that they're "eerie maybe-normal-maybe-fantastical/grothesque/horror ". That's a good way of putting it!

My favorite story in there is The Old Man - I read it, went what?! and reread it immediately! I bought all of her books in some long ago Kobo sale but I find I have to take them in small doses.

The better to see you, my dear 6 years ago

Yeap. The way it's told really works on that one.