<p><b>FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF<i> REBECCA</i><br><br>With an Introduction by ''Britain''s most sophisticated film critic'' David Thomson, <i>THE TIMES</i></b><br><br><b>''A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror'' <i>OBSERVER </i></b><br><br><b>''One of the last century''s most original literary talents'' <i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i></b><br><br><b>''She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality'' <i>GUARDIAN </i></b><br><br><i>''How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . .''</i><br><br>A classic of alienation and horror, <i>The Birds</i> was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man''s sense of dominance over the natural world.</p>