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Split Second

Daphne du Maurier

First published 1953
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Mrs. Ellis goes out for a walk one morning in 1932 and returns an hour later to find her house occupied by strangers. She calls the police but they think she is suffering from amnesia because she doesn't know about the war or any other events that happened between 1932 and 1952.

First published in the collection The Apple Tree (1952).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1953 Kiss Me Again, Stranger Doubleday Collection 233
1964 Cover Les oiseaux et autres nouvelles Le Livre de Poche Collection 359
1973 Cover Les oiseaux et autres nouvelles Le Livre de Poche Collection 359
1983 Cover Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature Picador Anthology 299
April 1984 Cover Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature Clarkson N. Potter Anthology 299
May 1987 Cover Kiss Me Again, Stranger Dell Collection 231