The House of Dreams [short story]

by Agatha Christie

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Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. John Seagrove, a young city clerk, awakens early one morning in his London bedsit, desperately clinging to a dream that has just transformed his life. The next day, while dining at his boss’s house, he meets the enigmatic Allegra Kerr. Falling in love with her at first sight, John instantly realizes this is the overwhelming joy his dream foreshadowed … but could darker forces be at work?… (more)

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This is the story of John Segrave--of his life, which was unsatisfactory; of his love, which was unsatisfied; of his dreams, and of his death; and if in the two latter he found what was denied in the two former, then his life may, after all, be taken as a success.

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Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories. John Seagrove, a young city clerk, awakens early one morning in his London bedsit, desperately clinging to a dream that has just transformed his life. The next day, while dining at his boss’s house, he meets the enigmatic Allegra Kerr. Falling in love with her at first sight, John instantly realizes this is the overwhelming joy his dream foreshadowed … but could darker forces be at work?

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John Segrave's dreams are haunted by a perfect house that he longs for, until one night a hideous Thing looks out of his house of beauty. Meawhile, he falls in love with a woman who says that she will never marry -- is she tied to the secret of the house?

In: Agatha Christie, The Harlequin Tea Set and other stories (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997) pp. 61-84.

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