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AC's scariest scene

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cat1234 26 Oct 08 at 8:49 p.m. GMT

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Which AC scene / chapter / incident did you find quite scary?

Mine was in Towards Zero, the chapter where the murderer plots with every detail the murder who is going to commit in future. I found it particularly scary. Also the revelation of Edwards' true identity in They Came to Baghdad.

What about you?

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AriadneOliver491 06 Oct 11 at 11:51 p.m. GMT

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Also in Halloween Party, when Miranda is nearly killed by Michael in that stone circle, and in Dead Man's Folly, when they find Marlene's body.

AriadneOliver491 06 Oct 11 at 11:48 p.m. GMT

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Mine is in They Came To Baghdad, when Victoria realises that Edward is masterminding it all. 

ace_of_spades 06 Aug 11 at 2:57 a.m. GMT

THE PALE HORSE was creepy! I read a book that said that someone realized that factory workers were being poisoned (the same poison used in the novel, with hair coming out in handfuls...) because of Christie's novel!!

A scene from CAT AMONG THE PIDGEONS also always freaks me out-- it's night time, but Julia can't sleep; all of a sudden she hears careful footsteps along the hallway. They stop outside her bedroom... a quiet knock on her door, before the doorknob is slowly turned.....

Just imagining it scares me every time!

MissQuin 04 Mar 10 at 3:44 p.m. GMT

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Endless night... it gave me the shivers. I couldnt read it properly.

Ellie's ghost appearing, it was scary. But the reader will later realise it not a ghost, it's a schizo type hallucination.

go_leafs_nation 04 Mar 10 at 1:11 p.m. GMT

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I expect each of us has an AC murder scene that can give you nightmares. Mine is the clothesline murder in A Murder is Announced.

MissQuin 01 Mar 10 at 8:14 p.m. GMT

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The Pale Horse is quite tense, the fear of the unknown. But I find Murder is Easy scarier.

Theres a Marple short story, The idol House, which is good suspense.

The Harlequin's Lane short story unsettles me. I love Mr Quin and he's such a romantic figure, helping lovers. Then he's this terrifiying bringer of death.. poor Mr Satterwaite, I think it reminded him of his own mortality.

Nofret 28 Dec 09 at 3:19 p.m. GMT

"And then there was none" - a masterpiece in terror! Dame Agatha steadily builds the suspense from when the disembodied voice of U.N.Owen fills the room, through the gradual elimination of the suspects. The reader begins to identify more and more with Vera, as she is left terrified in her room, while the others hunt for Armstrong.

The final denouement of "Death comes as the end" is also pretty spooky, when Renisenb is walking down from the tomb at sunset, she hears footsteps behind her, and turns to see...............

MissQuin 20 Dec 09 at 1:43 p.m. GMT

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I found Murder is Easy scary as there is an undercurrant of menace, as it deals with witchcraft/black magic. 

SPOILERS! There is a part where Luke Fitzwilliam breaks into the Mr Ellsworthy's house. When Mr Ellsworthy comes back covered in blood, whilst Luke is still in the house is very scary!!

I was very disapointed by the Marple version of Murder is easy, as the ytook away the black magic plot. If it was too unpleasant (I dont think it was) why replace it with a more upsetting one about rape and incest??

jane_delawney 07 Dec 09 at 1:14 a.m. GMT

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I think "And Then There Were None" was a very scary book. The scene where they find Rogers' body and Vera realises the killer's plot ... or when Lombard wakes up and hears someone quietly tip-toe through the house ... and of course, the ending. The ending was the scariest bit of fiction I have ever read in my life. I get goosebumps when I just think about it!

ace_of_spades 03 Mar 09 at 11:48 p.m. GMT

There are SO many creepy parts in AC's books, I don't think I can pick the scariest.

There were many passages in The Moving Finger that freaked me out, along with, as Nausicaa said, the last few chapters of Endless Night.

HarleyBarley 27 Nov 08 at 5:34 p.m. GMT

And Then There Were None certainly rates thrilling on my list as well. Especially the end, from chapter 14 onwards. And Mr. Quin too, at various points... I think Det. Paul John and I share similar impressions!

Nausicaa 26 Nov 08 at 5:44 a.m. GMT

I have to say Endless night was scary. The part (SPOILER) where mike is starting to go nuts and then he kills Greta. (Greta right, I havent read it for a while). And he explains what he did to Ellie. I was in bed at night reading that, bad idea!

detectivepauljohn 15 Nov 08 at 2:41 a.m. GMT

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cat1234

Yes she is really heartless and selfish because she killed two children. I think she is the worst character in all AC books!

cat1234 14 Nov 08 at 9:30 p.m. GMT

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Michael did know that Miranda was his daughter and that's what makes it so scary. I mean to kill his own child in return for a piece of land where he would create the garden of his dreams, that is really disturbing! Now that I think about it both Michael and Rowena were probably the most self centered, heartless and mad AC's murderers. After all Rowena didn't hesitate to kill two children! How heartless is that!

go_leafs_nation 13 Nov 08 at 11:14 a.m. GMT

I was under the impression that he DID know... Anyone reread it recently?

detectivepauljohn 13 Nov 08 at 10:32 a.m. GMT

AndThenThereWasTim

but Michael don't know that her daughter is Miranda

AndThenThereWasTim 13 Nov 08 at 2 a.m. GMT

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I have to agree with leaf and detective paul. I was almost disgusted Miranda's father would want to kill her.. but I was LITERALLY shaking when I was reading halloween

detectivepauljohn 12 Nov 08 at 9:47 a.m. GMT

In And Then There Were None, almost every scenes(from the beginning when the first person died until the last one died and OMG it's sooo scary and thrilling!. Also in The Mysterious Mr. Quin in the 1st short story The Coming Of Mr. Quin when they talk about the murder of Derek Capel and Eleanor there standing and listening and this is my favorite short story.

go_leafs_nation 05 Nov 08 at 3:38 a.m. GMT

HALLOWE'EN PARTY SPOILERS!!!

It was her father, but you didn't know that yet. You didn't know who it even was until the end of the chapter... Which was what added to the creepiness.

belgian_in_ireland 28 Oct 08 at 8:48 p.m. GMT

The last scenes in Halloween party where Miranda is on the road with her father (? it's been a while since I read it). You never really know what's going to happen.