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Virago reveal UK cover for After Midnight by Daphne du Maurier


After Midnight cover revealed

Virago reveals the UK cover of After Midnight, due to be published on 30th September 2025.


Virago has revealed the UK cover of After Midnight, the collection of Daphne du Maurier’s short stories, which will be published on 30th September 2025.

Virago brings you thirteen chilling tales for the dark hours, introduced by international bestselling author Stephen King.  This stunning hardback collection of Daphne du Maurier’s thirteen darkest stories, including The Birds and Don’t Look Now.

Here is a  quote about the new collection from Virago:

From murderous desires to supernatural forces, du Maurier’s masterful short stories stare into the dark heart of our relationships: between men and women, humanity and nature, love and obsession, the future and the past.  Whatever you do, don’t look now…

Praise for Daphne du Maurier:

These stories are staggeringly good – Stephen King

Masterful, troubling and wickedly seductive – Sarah Perry

The master of slow-burning menace – Stacy Halls

Du Maurier is mistress of the sleight of hand in fiction – Maggie O’Farrell


To read more about After Midnight and to pre-order your copy, go to Virago here: https://store.virago.co.uk/products/after-midnight

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