After Midnight: Thirteen Chilling Tales for the Dark Hours
Daphne du Maurier

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Published: 2025

A STUNNING NEW HARDBACK COLLECTION OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER’S THIRTEEN DARKEST STORIES – INTRODUCED BY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER STEPHEN KING

‘Her talent is a bright light that will guide you. These remarkable stories await’ 
STEPHEN KING
‘A marvellously dark, unsettling collection. I loved it’ SARAH WATERS
‘Unputdownable . . . After Midnight promises to never let you sleep again’ LUCY ROSE
‘Daphne du Maurier is the Godmother of Fear’ ALICE SLATER

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On a sharp December day, the wind changes – and the birds begin to gather.
In the twisting alleyways of Venice, a grieving couple catch a glimpse of their lost child.
A woman returns home to find no trace of her existence.

From the inimitable imagination of Daphne du Maurier, these thirteen stories pierce to the dark heart of our relationships: between men and women, humanity and nature, love and obsession, the future and the past. Uncanny, provocative and spine-crawlingly terrifying, these tales will keep you up long after midnight. Whatever you do, don’t look now . . .

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