DAPHNE DU MAURIER - The Blue Lenses And Other Stories

Eight short stories:
 
 
 
"The Alibi" – In an attempt to escape his dull existence John Fenton starts a double life, randomly picking a house he plans to murder its occupants, a single mother and her son, but instead finds release in painting them in oils...
 
 
"The Blue Lenses" – After several weeks recovering from eye-surgery a woman has her bandages removed. To her astonishment and then horror people viewed through the implanted blue lenses are seen as animals: cows, weasel, snakes, frogs etc. Further surgery is later required...
 
 
"Ganymede" – A classical scholar becoming besotted with a young waiter in Piazza San Marco whilst holidaying in Venice, with tragic results...
 
 
"The Pool" – A girl escapes from her younger brother and is enticed via an overgrown garden pool into a secret magical world...
 
 
"The Archduchess" – Tells of how revolution and death come to the idyllic European kingdom of Ronda.
 
 
"The Menace" – Movie heart-throb Barry Jeans has been top of the box-office ratings for many years but with the advent of the 'feelies' (where actors are wired-up and their feelings recorded for playback) he is found wanting...
 
 
"The Chamois" – A hunter travels to Kalabaka in the Pindus of Greece to hunt the elusive chamois...
 
 
"The Lordly Ones" – A mute boy moves with his parents from Exeter to the 'moors' where one nights he meets and joins "The Lordly Ones"...