Collins Chillers
From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume. âFrom behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high long-drawn scream â such a scream as Raoul had never heard. It died away with a horrible kind of gurgle. Then there came the thud of a body fallingâŠâ For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling tales from Agatha Christie. Acknowledged the world over as the undisputed Queen of Crime, in fact she dabbled in her early writing career with mysteries of a more unearthly kind â stories featuring fantastic psychic visions, spectres looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, eerie messages from the Other Side, even a man who switches bodies with a cat⊠This haunting compendium gathers together all of Christieâs spookiest and most macabre short stories, some featuring her timeless detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Finally together in one volume, it shines a light on the darker side of Agatha Christie, one that she herself relished, identifying ten of them as âmy own favourite stories written soon after The Mysterious Affair at Styles, some before thatâ. Contains 20 stories: The Last SĂ©ance âą In a Glass Darkly âą The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb âą SOS âą The Fourth Man âą The Idol House of Astarte âą The Gipsy âą Philomel Cottage âą The Dream âą The Lamp âą Wireless âą The Mystery of the Blue Jar âą The Blue Geranium âą The Wife of the Kenite âą The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael âą The Call of Wings âą The Red Signal âą The Flock of Geryon âą The Dressmakerâs Doll âą The Hound of Death âReading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.â TANA FRENCH