The answer is a good example of the sort of perversity of which du Maurier was capable in her fiction.
The reader is intrigued as to what sort of cemetery-loving femme fatale this is, and of course by the end we know. In a recent review in The Guardian, writer Patrick McGrath complemented the story, which appears in a new collection of du Maurier’s more macabre stories, Don’t Look Now, published by The New York Review of Books press…and since NYRB press publishes only serious literature, that alone is quite enough of an accolade. In fact, it got a lot of attention in the 1960s and it has kept on getting attention to the present day. Just Google the title and you’ll see that the story got quite a bit of attention in the 1950s. “Kiss Me Again, Stranger” was written by Daphne du Maurier in 1951 and collected in her book of short stories: “The Apple Tree and Other Stories”.
It may well have been a bit…ahead of its time in its portrayal of a Femme Fatale who likes to pass the evening…with unsuspecting gentlemen…in a cemetery.
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