Books like The Comfort of Strangers
An English couple on vacation in Venice falls into the orbit of a sinister pair, and the holiday darkens into psychological horror.
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Audition
A widowed Tokyo film producer holds a fake casting audition to find a second wife, and the quiet young woman he picks turns out to have a basement and a wire saw.
Don't Look Now
Stories of grief, premonition, and dread, including the title novella of a couple haunted by their dead child in Venice.
The Other
In the summer of 1935 in a Connecticut farming village, thirteen-year-old twins Niles and Holland Perry play a secret game their grandmother taught them, as accidents begin to happen around the family.
Live Flesh
Victor Jenner, who shot a young policeman during a siege and left him in a wheelchair, comes out of prison ten years later and finds himself drawn to David Fleetwood, the man he paralysed, and the woman David lives with.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Early stories du Maurier wrote in her twenties and lost for decades, including the title story of a young man's obsession with a mysterious violinist.
Enduring Love
A man witnesses a balloon accident that kills a stranger, and the encounter triggers a stalker's obsessive love that he cannot prove or escape.
The Turnout
Dara and Marie Durant run the ballet school their mother left them, with Dara's husband, a former student, but when a fire forces them to hire a contractor named Derek, the life they have kept closed off starts to come apart.
Burnt Offerings
Ben and Marian Rolfe and their son rent a grand old country house for the summer at an absurdly low price, on one condition: that they look after the owners' elderly mother, who never leaves her room.
The Last House on Needless Street
In a boarded-up house at the end of a dead-end street lives Ted, his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia, and next door moves a woman who believes Ted took her sister eleven years ago.
The Bog Wife
For generations the Haddesleys of West Virginia have buried their patriarch in the bog in exchange for a wife to carry on the line. When their father dies and no bride rises for the eldest son, his siblings start to come apart.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Eighteen-year-old Merricat lives with her agoraphobic sister and frail uncle in the house where the rest of the Blackwoods were poisoned six years ago, until a cousin arrives and the village turns on them.
The Haunting of Hill House
A scholar of the supernatural invites three guests to spend a summer at Hill House, a notoriously haunted mansion, and the house begins to work on Eleanor, the loneliest of them.