You know Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca' — but she also wrote these terrifying tales
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"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again." That's the immortal opening sentence of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's 1938 masterpiece.
How often have I been lured in to both the novel and the 1940 Hitchcock film of Rebecca by that sentence? Is it an incantation? A curse? A virus that infects the imagination? Whatever mojo du Maurier conjured up in that sentence, its potency lingers. Perhaps, just by hearing it, you, too, have become spellbound.
Rebecca dominates du Maurier's legacy, but she wrote
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