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The Blue Lenses

Daphne du Maurier

First published 1959
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

A girl who is given blue lenses after eye surgery finds that through them, she sees people in animal forms that reflect their true nature.

First published in the Ladies Home Journal, May 1959.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1959 The Breaking Point: Eight Stories Gollancz Collection
1969 Cover The Others Fawcett Gold Medal Anthology 13
1970 Cover The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 9
1970 Cover The Blue Lenses and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 49
August 1971 The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology
January 1972 Cover The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Beagle Books Anthology 9
1974 Cover Fantasy: Shapes of Things Unknown Scott, Foresman and Company Anthology 28
May 1974 The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 9
1976 Cover Echoes from the Macabre Gollancz Collection 145
1976 Cover Fantasy: Shapes of Things Unknown Scott, Foresman and Company Anthology 28
1977 Cover Echoes from the Macabre Doubleday Collection 129
September 1977 The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 9
January 1978 Cover Echoes from the Macabre International Collectors Library Collection 131
April 1978 Cover Echoes from the Macabre Avon Collection 131
1980 The Birds and Other Stories Longman Collection 91
November 1980 Cover Stories of Fear William Kimber Anthology 136
April 1982 Cover The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories Fontana Anthology 9
September 1987 Cover Classics of the Macabre Gollancz Collection 115
September 1987 Cover Classics of the Macabre Gollancz Collection 115
November 1987 Cover Classics of the Macabre Doubleday Collection 115