26 of Our Favorite Thriller Books That Were Turned Into Movies

The master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock, adapted Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca in 1940, and all these years later, the story is still a thrilling, Gothic masterpiece. In the book, a young bride recounts the story of her time spent in her husband's manor home, Manderley. While there, she contends with a maid who seems to be obsessed with Rebecca, her husband's first wife, and what could be the ghostly presence of her predecessor lingering in the halls — or is something more sinister than a ghost haunting her?