![]() There’s no Tippi Hedren character delivering lovebirds. We’re in coastal Cornwall shortly after the war. The final story, The Old Man didn’t work for me so I haven’t reviewed it.įorget the Hitchcock movie, We’re not in California in the 1960s. I’ve reviewed each of the first five stories below. They’re original, character-driven, vivid, surprisingly modern and quite different from one another. I found each of the fiche stories to be deeply engaging. Kiss Me Again, Stranger: an encounter with a stranger that changes the life of an otherwise ordinary man.The Little Photographer: a story of indolent self-indulgence leading to violence and grief.Monte Verità: a story about the pursuit of a life beyond the ordinary.The Birds: a piece of speculative fiction about how humans react to a sudden and deadly change in their environment.There are six stories in ‘The Birds and other stories’, the first five of which I liked: ![]() The mountain paradise of ‘Monte Verità’ promises immortality, but at a terrible price a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject’s life a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery and a jealous father finds a remedy when three’s a crowd. ![]() The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man’s sense of dominance over the natural world. A classic of alienation and horror, ‘The Birds’ was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. ![]()
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