Q. I heard that Hitchcock’s film, “The Birds,” was based on a story by a famous author. I’d like to read the original story. Can you help me find it?
A . The original story can be found in the library copy of “Daphne du Maurier’s Classics of the Macabre.”
In the introduction to this book, Du Maurier writes: “Many of the ideas for my novels and short stories have come to me when I was traveling… Often a story would well up in my mind but would take a long time to mature.
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