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The Birds

Daphne du Maurier

First published 1952
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

A family in their Cornish cottage are attacked by all the birds in the countryside. It's the apocalypse.

Notes

First published in Good Housekeeping, October 1952.

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Publications (59)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1952 The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Some Stories Gollancz Collection 83
October 1952 Good Housekeeping, October 1952 MAGAZINE 54
1953 Kiss Me Again, Stranger Doubleday Collection 31
1959 My Favorites in Suspense Random House Anthology 3
December 1960 14 of My Favorites in Suspense Dell Anthology 13
1961 Things with Claws Ballantine Books Anthology 7
March 1961 14 of My Favorites in Suspense Dell Anthology 13
November 1961 14 of My Favorites in Suspense Dell Anthology 13
1963 The Birds and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection |1
April 1963 14 of My Favorites in Suspense Dell Anthology 13
September 1963 Stories of Suspense Scholastic Book Services Anthology 1
November 1963 Stories of Suspense Scholastic Book Services Anthology 1
1965 Things with Claws Ballantine Bal-Hi Anthology
1967 Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense Random House Anthology 32
August 1968 Strange Beasts and Unnatural Monsters Fawcett Crest Anthology 117
1969 Something Strange Macmillan Anthology 201
1969 Unknown Worlds Holt, Rinehart and Winston Anthology 31
January 1969 Stories of Suspense Scholastic Anthology 1
March 1969 Stories of Suspense Scholastic Anthology 1
1970 Cornish Tales of Terror Fontana Anthology 143
1970 Cornish Tales of Terror Fontana Anthology 143
1971 Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Anthology 181
1971 The Birds and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 7
1971 The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Some Stories Gollancz Collection 83
February 1971 Cornish Tales of Terror Fontana Anthology 143
April 1971 Eco-Fiction Washington Square Press Anthology 59
November 1971 The Ruins of Earth G. P. Putnam's Sons Anthology 189
December 1971 The Ruins of Earth G. P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC Anthology 165
June 1972 The Ruins of Earth Berkley Medallion Anthology 170
December 1972 Stories of Suspense Scholastic Anthology 1
1974 A Little Night Reading: Twenty Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Roger Schlesinger Anthology 147
June 1974 Cornish Tales of Terror Fontana Anthology 143
January 1975 Stories of Suspense Scholastic Book Services Anthology 1
September 1975 A Little Night Reading Orbit / Futura Anthology 147
1976 You and Science Fiction National Textbook Co. Anthology 281
1976 Echoes from the Macabre Gollancz Collection 311
June 1976 14 of My Favorites in Suspense Dell Anthology 13
1977 Echoes from the Macabre Doubleday Collection 287
1977 The Birds and Other Stories Pan Books Collection |1
1978 Sinister and Supernatural Stories Ward Lock Educational Anthology 8
1978 Sinister and Supernatural Stories Ward Lock Educational Anthology 8
1978 Fireside Reader Reader's Digest Anthology 522
January 1978 Echoes from the Macabre International Collectors Library Collection 289
April 1978 Echoes from the Macabre Avon Collection 283
1980 The Birds and Other Stories Longman Collection 1
1980 Sinister and Supernatural Stories Ward Lock Educational Anthology 8
1982 Suspense John Murray Anthology 92
October 1984 Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women Macmillan Anthology 206
1985 You and Science Fiction National Textbook Co. Anthology 281
May 1987 Kiss Me Again, Stranger Dell Collection 31
September 1987 Classics of the Macabre Gollancz Collection 153
September 1987 Classics of the Macabre Gollancz Collection 153
November 1987 Classics of the Macabre Doubleday Collection 153
1994 You and Science Fiction National Textbook Co. Anthology 281
November 1998 The Birds Addison Wesley Longman Chapbook
October 2011 Murmurations: An Anthology of Uncanny Stories About Birds Two Ravens Press Anthology 211
March 2013 Zoetrope: All-Story, Spring 2013 AZX Publications MAGAZINE 56
December 2013 The Birds and Other Stories Little, Brown Collection |1
February 2021 Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes The British Library Anthology 283