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Short stories by Mary Higgins Clark. I'm not usually a big fan of short stories, but these all had Mary Higgins Clark's touch. Five stories included. The Anastasia Syndrome (of course), Terror Stalks the Class Reunion, Lucky Day, Double Vision, The Lost Angel.
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Mary Higgins Clark's many fans will welcome her frst collection of short fiction, because in it Clark continues doing what she does so well. -Cleveland Plain Dealer
Penny T. (iluvmysteries) reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome: and other stories on + 431 more book reviews
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I enjoy MHC's short stories and had not seen this collection before.
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Great lot of short stories by one of my favorites authors
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I just loved these short stories! MHC has a way of leaving me wanting more...
Linda H. (Ca53Buckeye) reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome: and other stories on + 134 more book reviews
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[from the back cover] An orphaned historical writer preparing for marriage gets involved with a psychiatrist who experiments in regression.
Other stories involve:
-Obsessive Love
-Psychic Contact with a dead twin sister
-A premonition of Imminent Danger
-A desparate mother's intuition and her missing child.
Other stories involve:
-Obsessive Love
-Psychic Contact with a dead twin sister
-A premonition of Imminent Danger
-A desparate mother's intuition and her missing child.
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In this novel, prominent historical writer Judith Chase is living in London and preparing for her marriage to Sir Stephen Hallett, expected to become England's next Prime Minister. Orphaned during World War II, Judith wants to trace her origins. In this quest, she goes to a renowned psychiatrist and becomes the victim of his experiments in regression. When a woman in a dark green cape sets off bombs in London, Sir Stephen and Judith are faced with an intangible, mysterious force threatening their very existence.
Obsessive love is the subject of "Terror Stalks the Class Reunion"; psychic contact with a dead twin sister is the only defense against a murder in "Double Vision; "Lucky Day", compared to O. Henry's "the Gift of the Magi", begins with a premonition of imminent danger; in "The Lost Angel", a desperate mother follows her intuition in a harrowing search for her missing child.
Obsessive love is the subject of "Terror Stalks the Class Reunion"; psychic contact with a dead twin sister is the only defense against a murder in "Double Vision; "Lucky Day", compared to O. Henry's "the Gift of the Magi", begins with a premonition of imminent danger; in "The Lost Angel", a desperate mother follows her intuition in a harrowing search for her missing child.
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Great short stories by this wonderful author! Fun and thought provoking !
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a good way to start reading MHC. You will also enjoy her movies when you can catch them.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this series of short stories. This writing style is much more intense than her later works.
Do not miss reading this one!
Do not miss reading this one!
Another one of her good books.
A riveting and original collection of some of her best short stories--among my favorites being "Terror Stalks the Class Reunion" and "The Lost Angel" A true Clark classic.
great collection of easy reading short mysteries
...amply demonstrates Clark's skill at maintaining suspense by creating nightmarish situations that lie beneath the surface of ordinary life.
Barbara F. (blueheronmom) reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome: and other stories on + 137 more book reviews
Riveting, suspenceful short stories.
Mary Higgins Clark's many fans will welcome her first collection of short fiction, because it continues doing what she does so well.
Gail P. (TinkerPirate) -
What you expect from Clark. Good stories and always enjoyable.
Barbara B. (redhatter) reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome: and other stories on + 577 more book reviews
These stories amply demonstrate Clark's skill at maintaining suspense by creating nightmarish situations that lie just beneath the surface or ordinary life.
In the main story, Anastasia, an historical writer Judith Chase, is engaged to the future prime minister, Stephen Hallet. She is working on a novel though, and is caught up in a lot of other issues along with it. The evil mind of Margaret Carew, dominates Judith, and it is a true mystery as to what is happening within her mind. You really have to read into it to know what I am referring to here, but it becomes very frightening in many places as Judith experiences strange events. The psychiatrist, Dr. Patel, puts her under hypnosis, giving her a drug that makes her regress further into her confusing past.
The other stories in the book, were even scarier yet, than Anastasia
The other stories in the book, were even scarier yet, than Anastasia
n the short novel The Anastasia Syndrome, prominent historical writer Judith Chase is living in London and preparing for her marriage to Sir Stephen Hallett, expected to become England's next Prime Minister. Orphaned during World War II, Judith wants to trace her origins. In this quest, she goes to a renowned psychiatrist and becomes the victim of his experiments in regression. When a woman in a dark green cape sets off bombs in London, Sir Stephen and Judith are faced with an intangible, mysterious force threatening their very existence.
Obsessive love is the subject of Terror Stalks the Class Reunion; psychic contact with a dead twin sister is the only defense against a murder in Double Vision; Lucky Day, compared to O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, begins premonition of imminent danger; in The Lost Angel, mother follows her intuition in a harrowing search for her missing child.
Obsessive love is the subject of Terror Stalks the Class Reunion; psychic contact with a dead twin sister is the only defense against a murder in Double Vision; Lucky Day, compared to O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, begins premonition of imminent danger; in The Lost Angel, mother follows her intuition in a harrowing search for her missing child.
Cindy Lou J. (justcindylou) reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome: and other stories on + 14 more book reviews
Book is in good condition
