The Apple Tree is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier published in 1952 by Gollancz in the UK, and under the title Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Doubleday in the US. It includes "The Birds" which was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963, the anthology was then republished under the name The Birds and Other Stories. Reviewing the American edition in F&SF, Boucher and McComas noted that while nearly half the work fell into the fantasy genre, some bordering on science fiction, the stories were "largely overlong and not too original.