The Call of Wings

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Summary

Genre: Supernatural

Format: Short Story

Synopsis

One frosty evening millionaire hedonist Silas Hamer is gripped with a sudden fear of his own mortality. He encounters a man who he believes has triggered his spiritual awakening.

In this story a phrase from Wagner’s Rienzi exemplifies the mystical, transforming power of music. It is one of the earliest short stories Christie wrote, dating from before the First World War. Towards the end of her life she still thought it ‘not bad’. This short story is published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories in the UK, in the US it is in The Golden Ball and Other Stories.

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