But dramatically, The Birds is little more than a shocker-for shock’s-sake. Evan Hunter’s screenplay, from Daphne du Maurier’s story, has it that a colony of our feathered ‘friends’ over ...

Hell, it’s not even the only Daphne du Maurier book worth ... when the birds in the area begin to viciously attack the people there. Another dark short story from du Maurier spun into a horror ...

Virago has acquired the rights to a history of the du Maurier family written by Daphne du Maurier’s grandson. Sarah Savitt, publisher of Virago, acquired world all-language rights to The Du ...

Jemima allows a fox to lure her to his home where he plans to eat her. In Daphne du Maurier’s short story, The Birds – on which Alfred Hitchcock's horror film of the same name was based ...