Because of her name, I always thought Daphne du Maurier was a romance writer and dismissed her as such. But recently I came into possession of a paperback of several of her stories, including “Don’t Look Now,” an eerie story that I had first seen rather than read–a Donald Sutherland-Julie Christie film set in Venice. The stories of the book combine a sense of mystery, science fiction and horror. I’ve now read all five stories in the book and am terribly impressed with du Maurier as a writer. She has a subtle yet sharp insight into human relationships. How sad that I was put off for so long by her romantic name.