Rebecca (novel) his deceased wife, Rebecca. The supernatural reaction of the portrait doesn't convince him and so he places her in a cupboard. The 1970 Parallel Time storyline of the Gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" was heavily inspired by "Rebecca" including the costume ball scene. Also the second "Dark Shadows" motion picture, "Night of Dark Shadows" took inspiration from the novel including a mention by Kate Jackson's character who hopes the housekeeper is not like Mrs. Danvers The fifth episode of the second series of "That Mitchell and Webb Look" contains an extended sketch parodying the 1940 film, in which Rebecca is
The House on the Strand the phone but suddenly finds he is unable to grip it. The ending is left open: is Dick dead, paralysed or simply collapsing? Daphne du Maurier said of it: "What about the hero of "The House on the Strand"? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don’t really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don’t you?" The House on the Strand The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. First published in the UK in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, with