About

THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE AGATHA CHRISTIE FESTIVAL

While best known for her detective stories and thrillers, Agatha Christie also wrote many stories of the supernatural, many of which were collected in The Last Séance. The occult and supernatural themes appear in many of her novels and stories, including her first short story, published in 1919.

In this illustrated talk, Tony Medawar describes some of the stories and characters that appear in them as well as the influences on this aspect of Christie’s career. Tony is an authority on crime fiction of the Golden Age as well as being a former director of the Festival. While he works primarily as a theatre director, he also edits books including The Quotable Miss Marple and the long-running Bodies from the Library series of anthologies for HarperCollins, the first of which brought back into print Christie’s long-forgotten short story ‘The Wife of the Kenite’. His most recent anthology is Wicked Spirits, which inc