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Endless Night
Image:Endless Night First Edition Cover 1967.jpg
Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition
Author Agatha Christie
Cover artist Kenneth Farnhill
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Crime novel
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date Flag of the United Kingdom October 1967
Flag of the United States 1968
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages Flag of the United Kingdom 224 (First Edition)
ISBN None issued for First Edition (Reissue ISBN 0-007-15167-5)
Preceded by Third Girl
Followed by By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Endless Night is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1967 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. It was one of her favorites of her own works and received some of the warmest critical notices of her career upon publication. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), mainly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ... For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... The Collins Crime Club was an imprint of UK book publishers William Collins & Co Ltd and ran from May 1930 to April 1994. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... For other uses, see October (disambiguation). ... See also: 1966 in literature, other events of 1967, 1968 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... See also: 1967 in literature, other events of 1968, 1969 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... “ISBN” redirects here. ... Third Girl (published in 1966) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie featuring the detectives Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver. ... By The Pricking of My Thumbs (published in 1968) is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie featuring her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. ... Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), mainly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ... The Collins Crime Club was an imprint of UK book publishers William Collins & Co Ltd and ran from May 1930 to April 1994. ... For other uses, see October (disambiguation). ... See also: 1966 in literature, other events of 1967, 1968 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Frank Howard Dodd, (1844-1916), was the leading publisher at Dodd, Mead and Company of New York City from 1870 until his death, January 16, 1916. ...


The title comes from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence: "Every night and every morn/some to misery are born/every morn and every night/some are born to sweet delight./Some are born to sweet delight/ some are born to endless night." William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. ...


Plot summary

Ambitious young Michael Rogers - the narrator of the story - falls in love with Fenella Guteman (Ellie) the first time he sets eyes on her on the mysterious yet scenic 'Gipsy's Acre', complete with its sea-view and dark fir trees. Before long, he has both the land and the woman, but rumors are spreading of a curse hanging over the land. Not heeding the locals' warnings, the couple take up residence at 'Gipsy's Acre', leading to a devastating tragedy. The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ... Species See text. ...


Film versions

A 1971 film was made, starring Hayley Mills, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson, Hywel Bennett and George Sanders. Christie reportedly had some reservations about the use of sex scenes to enliven the plot. Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Hayley Catherine Rose Vivian Mills (born April 18, 1946) is an English actress. ... Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund on October 6, 1942) is a Swedish actress, long resident in the UK. Ekland became famous as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to British actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper. ... Hywel Thomas Bennett (born 8 April 1944) is a Welsh actor, born in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales. ... George Sanders (July 3, 1906 – April 25, 1972) was an English actor in British and American films. ...

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Works by Agatha Christie
Detectives: Hercule Poirot • Miss Marple • Tommy and Tuppence • Ariadne Oliver • Arthur Hastings • Superintendent Battle • Chief Inspector Japp • Parker Pyne
Novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Secret Adversary • The Murder on the Links • The Man in the Brown Suit • The Secret of Chimneys • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Big Four • The Mystery of the Blue Train • The Seven Dials Mystery • The Murder at the Vicarage • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House • Lord Edgware Dies • Murder on the Orient Express • Three Act Tragedy • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? • Death in the Clouds • The A.B.C. Murders • Murder in Mesopotamia • Cards on the Table • Dumb Witness • Death on the Nile • Appointment with Death • Hercule Poirot's Christmas • Murder is Easy • And Then There Were None • Sad Cypress • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe • Evil Under the Sun • N or M? • The Body in the Library • Five Little Pigs • The Moving Finger • Towards Zero • Death Comes as the End • Sparkling Cyanide • The Hollow • Taken at the Flood • Crooked House • A Murder is Announced • They Came to Baghdad • Mrs McGinty's Dead • They Do It with Mirrors • After the Funeral • A Pocket Full of Rye • Destination Unknown • Hickory Dickory Dock • Dead Man's Folly • 4.50 From Paddington • Ordeal by Innocence • Cat Among the Pigeons • The Pale Horse • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side • The Clocks • A Caribbean Mystery • At Bertram's Hotel • Third Girl • Endless Night • By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Hallowe'en Party • Passenger to Frankfurt • Nemesis • Elephants Can Remember • Postern of Fate • Curtain • Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott: Giant's Bread • Unfinished Portrait • Absent in the Spring • The Rose and the Yew Tree • A Daughter's a Daughter • The Burden
Short story collections: Poirot Investigates • Partners in Crime • The Mysterious Mr. Quin • The Thirteen Problems • The Hound of Death • The Listerdale Mystery • Parker Pyne Investigates • Murder in the Mews • The Regatta Mystery • The Labours of Hercules • The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories • Three Blind Mice and Other Stories • The Under Dog and Other Stories • The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding • Double Sin and Other Stories • The Golden Ball and Other Stories • Poirot's Early Cases • Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories • Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories • The Harlequin Tea Set • While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
Plays: Black Coffee • And Then There Were None • Appointment with Death • Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon • The Hollow • The Mousetrap • Witness for the Prosecution • Verdict • Rule of Three • Fiddlers Three • Akhnaton
Radio (and Television) Plays: Three Blind Mice • Butter In a Lordly Dish
Other Published Works: The Road of Dreams • Star Over Bethlehem and other stories
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The Sandman: Endless Nights [2003] Shaking Through.net: Comics: Review (710 words)
Endless Nights is broken up into seven chapters, each one focusing on a member of The Endless, the enigmatic family as old as time whose members are the walking, talking forms of Dream, Despair, Desire, Delirium, Destiny, Destruction and, of course, Death.
And the closing "Destiny: Endless Nights," with artwork by the always impressive Frank Quitely, is as pretty as it is pointless.
In all, Endless Nights is a fine companion piece to a peerless comic book series that elevated the possibilities of the medium, and if it leads curious newcomers to introduce themselves to the original source material, so much the better.
The Sandman: Endless Nights - PopMatters Comic Book Review (828 words)
The Endless, for those new to Gaiman's work, are something more than gods: they live in the background, older than the dieties, and will be around long after the last god or goddess has given up the ghost.
Endless Nights is a series of seven stories, each by a different artist, centering on a different member of the Endless.
Miguelanxo Prado draws possibly the only story in the collection to touch on the Endless' history and family dynamics, with a tale of a celestial parliament when time was still young, and what happened to Dream's first lover.
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