Don't Look Now | Sinister Stories

In the following essay excerpt, Shallcross reviews
the quality of the film adaptation of du
Maurier’s ‘‘Don’t Look Now.’’

Although Daphne du Maurier has written many selections of short stories, many with supernatural and occult themes, none has grabbed the attention so successfully as ‘Don’t Look Now’. Throughout her career, she wrote about places rather than about people—and this particular story about supernatural or occult forces that led to a violent death in Venice conjured up wonderfully sinister visions of out-ofseason Venice, that most mysterious of waterlocked Italian cities, with its canals, crumbling buildings and eerily deserted hotels full of shrouded furniture.

Daphne always...

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