The Birds And Other Stories

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA

With an Introduction by 'Britain's most sophisticated film critic' David Thomson, THE TIMES

• 'A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror' - OBSERVER
• 'One of the last century's most original literary talents' - DAILY TELEGRAPH
• 'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' - GUARDIAN

'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . .'

A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world.