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Classics of the Macabre

This sumptuous volume celebrates the 80th birthday of one of the best-known and most-loved storytellers in the English language today, Daphne du Maurier.

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Here are six masterpieces of the imagination, illustrated in glowing color by prize-winning artist, Michael Foreman.

Don't Look Now, a classic story of the macabre, opens the collection, followed by The Apple Tree, The Blue Lenses, The Birds, The Alibiand Not After Midnight.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 284 pages

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