Not After Midnight And Other Stories

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Stephen Saunders is sent to an isolated laboratory on the salt marshes of the East Coast to help out with a secret project. He is told that the laboratory is in need of an electrical engineer, but is given no other details. On arrival, Stephen discovers that he is expected to help operate the computer for an experiment to trap a human's vital spark, or psychic energy, at the point of death and prevent it from going to waste. The test subject is Ken, an affable young assistant who is dying of leukaemia. This is an excellent story, deservedly renowned for its tension and creepiness, as well as a very good depiction of a British holiday in Italy. My main reservation with it is that du Maurier seems to think grieving a dead child is something only a mother would do. John tends to his wife, but doesn’t seem particularly bothered that Christine has died. But, that detail aside, a marvellous story.

Short Fiction: Come Wind, Come Weather, 1940; Happy Christmas, 1940; The Apple Tree, 1952; Kiss Me Again, Stranger, 1952; Early Stories, 1955; The Breaking Point, 1959; The Treasury of du Maurier Short Stories, 1959; Not After Midnight, 1971; Echoes from the Macabre, 1976; The Rendezvous and Other Stories, 1980; Classics from the Macabre, 1987. Following them into the nearby town one night, Grey is confronted by the Stoll, who is keen to extol the virtues of his home-made supply:

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Beauty: 3/3/3/2/3. Not the most elegant, but bits of striking imagery; nothing terribly bad beyond a bit of stiltedness. This is a pretty straight forward movie. Still, there are a few intriguing plot elements that are worth exploring deeper. We will recap what happened before explaining the ending. I think there is a slight hint at a metaphorical meaning to the events of the movie. I will go into that a little as well.

Some sci-fi thing about capturing essences that I didn’t enjoy at all, but that’s probably because I find sci-fi rather tedious at the best of times. How will these two mesh during the show? What will they find out they have in common? What about their differences? Find out here. Frankly speaking, my first encounter was with Nicholas Roeg’s film starring Donald Sutherland and a wonderful Julie Christie, rather than with Daphne du Maurier’s short story itself, and I have consequently always asked myself why the title is “Don’t Look Now”. Of course, that was not the only question I was left with after watching Roeg’s fascinating screen adaptation of du Maurier’s story because Roeg is a lot more ambiguous, opaque and equivocal in his approach to the original and he overwhelms his spectators with powerful symbolism into the bargain. That said, this is a fine collection of stories by an exceptional author. I really enjoyed her writing style and the the way that she was able to bring various settings around the world to life. That said, I don't think any of the stories really hit it out of the park. Maybe I expect more from the author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn but I felt like she set up several of the stories for a big finish and then....they just ended. I award this anthology ★★★½ stars out of five although at least half a star is awarded out of respect for Dame Daphne. Our narrator, Timothy Grey (a fitting name), may refute the charge of self-complacency, but we needn’t believe him, and what is more (or less, depending how you see it), he is most definitely a dull, conceited man. Nevertheless, when he chances to get involved with a mysterious American couple, his eventless life gets into motion and he discovers a darker side within himself, which he tries to ascribe to a hideous Grecian artefact that allegedly exerts a baleful influence on him. Of course, of course, it’s usually the artefact, isn’t it? – The story will probably baffle you for it denies you a clear explanation of the things that happen, but then you should not forget it is told by a first-person narrator. (****)Be sure to listen in and share the show with others who might enjoy or benefit from it. The show is also available on YouTube (on the Bald Spots Pro channel) and Facebook. El manzano (*****). El protagonista, que acaba de enviudar de su mujer, a la que no amaba, cree verla representada en un viejo manzano. Otro magnífico relato, mi favorito junto al anterior. Later, Billy stops by the bar again, and sees Kate persuade a very drunk, dejected Mr. Futterman to walk home instead of driving. Billy walks Kate home, and on the way, she tells him that she dislikes Christmas, but gets defensive when he asks why. Just as they arrive at Kate's place, Billy asks her out, and she accepts.

Kate and Rand arrive in the room and see the mess. Stripe's decaying body jumps out of the fountain for one last scare, but he can't handle the sunlight, and collapses. They all return home. SPOILER] I started to realise I'd been to that part of Crete when I saw mention of the island of Spinlonga. It's in the bay surrounded by the town of Elounda, and you can get boat trips to Spinalonga, which was a leper colony. I thought then that Grey had somehow caught leprosy, maybe from drinking the barley water from the old pot discovered there... which would have been silly, and, probably not very amusing. that was till this morning - when outside the house where there is a very large tree a large number of crows started to form and yes they sounded exactly like that. I later found out they were hounding a Red Kite which was circling but still it did bring that school house scene to mind. The Breakthrough" is the earliest story in the collection, written in 1964 in response to a request from Kingsley Amis who was hoping to edit a collection of science-fiction stories, a collection which never ultimately appeared. It was written before The House on the Strand, for which it was in some ways a rehearsal. [6]No después de medianoche (****). Un profesor viaja a Creta en busca de descanso y para poder pintar. El hecho de que le asignen una cabaña cuyo anterior huésped murió ahogado, tendrá sus consecuencias. Muy buen relato. Endearingness: 3/2/3/2/3. Not the warmest, most friendly stories, but some are reasonably likeable. Timothy Grey, a preparatory school headmaster, takes a holiday to the Greek island of Crete with the intent of finding some solitude in which to paint. On arrival at his hotel, he asks to move his accommodation to a better chalet, near the water's edge, which the hotel management agrees to with some reluctance. The reason becomes clear when he discovers that the chalet's previous occupant had drowned while swimming at night. Also staying at the hotel is Stoll, a drunken and obnoxious American, and his silent and apparently deaf wife. They spend every day out in a small boat, ostensibly fishing.