The Birds and Other Stories the fantasy genre, some bordering on science fiction, the stories were "largely overlong and not too original." The Birds and Other Stories The Birds and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier, originally published in 1952 as The Apple Tree by Gollancz in the United Kingdom. It includes "The Birds," which was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. The anthology was published in the United States as Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Doubleday and then has been republished under the current name, "The Birds and Other Stories". Reviewing
The Old Dark House (1963 film) been as well received by modern critics as the original film. Craig Butler of the film database Allmovie wrote of the 1963 film, that "When compared with the James Whale original upon which it is based, this remake of "The Old Dark House" is pretty sorry stuff." "Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000" describes this film as "a travesty which has nothing to do with the 1932 film and possesses no merit of its own. The cast is left floundering". "The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films" called it "one of the oddest pictures [Hammer Film Productions] ever