With these words,the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coastas the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgottenΓÇöa past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeperMrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouchedclothing laid out and ready to be wornbut not by any of the great house’s current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heartthe second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessordetermined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim’s first wifeΓÇöthe late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca. This special edition of Rebecca includes excerpts from Daphne du Maurier’s The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memoriesan essay on the real Manderleydu Maurier’s original epilogue to the bookand more.