Left: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie (Pocket, 1944), with a cover illustration by Leo Manso. Right: And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie (Cardinal, 1959); cover art by Sanford “Sandy” Kossin.
Today would have been Agatha Christie’s 133rd birthday, had she not so inconveniently died in early 1976. By way of celebration, LitReactor’s Christopher Shultz declares her the inventor of ... modern slasher fiction. “Whether intentional or not,” he writes, “the horror subgenre owes a huge debt of gratitude to Christie and her 1939 novel And Then There Were None.” Read his entire piece here.
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