Hallowe'en is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31st. Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbling, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, watching horror films ....
Various kinds of fear are embedded deep in the human psyche. And perhaps this festival, where people come with scary masks, give them a chance to get rid of their fear .... to some extent.
Agatha Christie has woven a murder mystery around this festival.
Fear, and crime born out of fear, and psychology of human frailties were very much known to Agatha Christie.
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