Echoes from the Macabre (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Daphne Du Maurier
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—extrasensory powers
- Time of Work: The recent past
- Setting: England, Crete, and Greece
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Supernatural, Extrasensory perception or powers, England or English people, Mysteries, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: England, Greece, Crete
The Plot
The best stories in this collection are about ordinary persons who have psychic or surreal experiences. In “Don’t Look Now,” John and Laura, an English couple who have gone to Venice to recover from the death of their daughter, Christine, encounter two elderly twin sisters, one of whom is blind and psychic. She tells them that Christine is alive. When they hear that night that their son is ill, Laura flies back to England alone. While she is gone, John is convinced that he sees Laura, in Venice, and in the company of the mysterious sisters. Things become more...
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