The cover page is adapted from Still Life with a Book, a Glass and a Bottle, a painting completed in 1927 by Vilhelm Lundstrøm. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Lundstrømwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Short Fiction
Chapters (7)
- Terror 0:00
- A Difference in Temperament 8:33
- A Man of Straw 26:32
- The Lover 49:16
- The Supreme Artist 1:11:25
- Frustration 1:29:51
- Indiscretion 1:43:27
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Daphne du Maurier, one of the premier English novelists of the twentieth century, was also an accomplished short story writer. As with her novels, her short stories can be both humorous and dark, often with open endings. Many of them are framed around psychological themes, and feature characters who have difficulties precisely communicating.
Some of her later shorts were made into films, most famously Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. More recently her short stories have been singled out for praise by the American horror author Stephen King. Collected here are all of du Maurier’s short stories that are known to be in the public domain, arranged by first publication date.