A couple of alerts for today, April 8.
1. In London:
Justine Picardie, Daphne
WATERSTONE'S HAMPSTEAD
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 7:00PM - 8:00PM
Tickets £3, available from the shop and redeemable against purchase of the promoted title on the night
Justine Picardie discusses her extraordinary new novel of a double haunting. A young PhD student in present-day Hampstead struggles with her new marriage and the ghost of du Maurier. In 1957, Daphne, despairing as she witnesses her husband’s mental breakdown, begins to feel the malevolent presence of her most famous creation, Rebecca…
2. In Los Angeles, California:
UCLA's Hammer Museum: Billy Wilder Theatre
Tuesday, Apr 8, 7pm
Hammer Screenings
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Legendary horror producer Val Lewton teams with director Jacques Tourneur (Cat People) to retell Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. A Canadian nurse (Frances Dee) is hired to take care of the lifeless wife of a plantation owner. Resorting to voodoo in order to find a cure, she soon realizes the terrifying truth about her situation.
More information, here.
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