SOURCE: "A Skilled Hand Weaves a Net of Horror," in New York Herald Tribune Book Review, March 15, 1953, p. 4.

In the following review, Berkman praises Kiss Me Again, Stranger for its insightful representation of painful and frightening human experiences.

Daphne du Maurier is a specialist in horror. Her creative intelligence is resourceful, her command of eerie atmosphere persuasive and precise, her sense of shock-timing exceptionally skilled. In [Kiss Me Again, Stranger] she explores horror in a variety of forms; in the macabre, in the psychologically deranged, in the supernatural, in the fantastic, most painfully of all, in the sheer cruelty of human beings in interrelationship. Yet on the whole the volume offers absorbing rather than oppressive reading because chiefly one's intellect is engaged; the emotional content remains subordinate. Broadly speaking, for the most part these are stories of detection as well, with the contributing elements of excitation, suspense, and...