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The Hound of Death - Agatha Christie


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The Hound of Death - Agatha Christie

 
Description: ISBN 0007154879 / Author: Agatha Christie / Genre: Crime / Thriller / A collection of Agatha Christie's stories of the macabre and the ... more
The Hound of Death - Agatha Christie ... occult, where a message from beyond the grave unmasks an insane killer, and a nun has the power to cause a landslide -- all bound in a cover designed to compliment the striking new Christie livery. Twelve unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation! A dog-shaped gunpowder mark; an omen from 'the other side'; a haunted house; a chilling seance; a case of split personalities; a recurring nightmare; an eerie wireless message; an elderly lady's hold over a young man; a disembodied cry of 'murder'; a young man's sudden amnesia; a levitation experience; a mysterious SOS. To discover the answers, delve into the supernatural storytelling of Agatha Christie.

Newest Review: ... Moreover, these stories allow us an interesting insight into the changing patterns of attitudes and diagnoses to mental ... more

 ... health over the decades. Written in the early 1930s the numerous refererences to doctors referring to their patients openly as "mad" or "insane" seems inconceivable now. It is not that the doctors within the stories appear callous or unconcerned, just that there is little attempt by them to go beyond any other terminology, with the exception of the odd reference to mania. This is particularly noticeable within "The Red Signal". Of course a large part of this could be Christie's own ignorance an...more

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Crowned Review The Hound of Death - Agatha Christie: Eerie elements of the ethereal. (1353 words)
by - written on 11/04/09 (Very useful, 104 readings)
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Within these collection of short stories Christie, in at least some of the narratives, removes her usual pragmatism and supposed scepticism of the occult and leads the reader on a truly chilling and awe inspiring journey through the supernatural. Combining tales which appear to be firm advocates of "the other world", those which could be compared to "The Blue Geranium" or "The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb" in that any mysterious events turn out to have a rational explanation and those in which the conclusion regarding the possibility of the occult is left to the reader's decision, this work opens our eyes to another side of Christie which ...  Read the complete review

 

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