'THE KILLING BOTTLE'
‘ The Killing Bottle/ by L. P. Hartley (Putnam) is a collection of what one might almost call ghost ; stones. They are tales with an odd and eerie twist. Into the spacious drawing rooms and country houses of the great, into the cultured mannered routine ot society comes a whisper, a breath, some icy evidence of the supernatural, and the reader is keyed up to startled attention. These themes, except in the hand of a skilled and practised writer, would miss the mark and fall flat. Mr Hartley makes them very real, and those readers who like to feel their flesh creeping will have their desires satisfied by reading ‘ The Killing Bottle.’
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Evening Star, Issue 21316, 21 January 1933, Page 19
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114'THE KILLING BOTTLE' Evening Star, Issue 21316, 21 January 1933, Page 19
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