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The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories
The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
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ISBN-13: 9780671701239
ISBN-10: 0671701231
Publication Date: 3/1/1991
Pages: 320
Rating:
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 146 ratings
Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
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21 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 32 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Short stories by Mary Higgins Clark. I'm not usually a big fan of short stories, but these all had Mary Higgins Clark's touch. Five stories included. The Anastasia Syndrome (of course), Terror Stalks the Class Reunion, Lucky Day, Double Vision, The Lost Angel.
soupysmom avatar reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 21 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Mary Higgins Clark's many fans will welcome her frst collection of short fiction, because in it Clark continues doing what she does so well. -Cleveland Plain Dealer
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 431 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I enjoy MHC's short stories and had not seen this collection before.
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 21 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great lot of short stories by one of my favorites authors
tigers9494 avatar reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 49 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I just loved these short stories! MHC has a way of leaving me wanting more...
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 134 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
[from the back cover] An orphaned historical writer preparing for marriage gets involved with a psychiatrist who experiments in regression.

Other stories involve:

-Obsessive Love
-Psychic Contact with a dead twin sister
-A premonition of Imminent Danger
-A desparate mother's intuition and her missing child.
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 194 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
In this novel, prominent historical writer Judith Chase is living in London and preparing for her marriage to Sir Stephen Hallett, expected to become England's next Prime Minister. Orphaned during World War II, Judith wants to trace her origins. In this quest, she goes to a renowned psychiatrist and becomes the victim of his experiments in regression. When a woman in a dark green cape sets off bombs in London, Sir Stephen and Judith are faced with an intangible, mysterious force threatening their very existence.

Obsessive love is the subject of "Terror Stalks the Class Reunion"; psychic contact with a dead twin sister is the only defense against a murder in "Double Vision; "Lucky Day", compared to O. Henry's "the Gift of the Magi", begins with a premonition of imminent danger; in "The Lost Angel", a desperate mother follows her intuition in a harrowing search for her missing child.
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 143 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great short stories by this wonderful author! Fun and thought provoking !
whitegardenia avatar reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
a good way to start reading MHC. You will also enjoy her movies when you can catch them.
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I thoroughly enjoyed this series of short stories. This writing style is much more intense than her later works.

Do not miss reading this one!
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 14 more book reviews
Another one of her good books.
ladipretender avatar reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on
A riveting and original collection of some of her best short stories--among my favorites being "Terror Stalks the Class Reunion" and "The Lost Angel" A true Clark classic.
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 7 more book reviews
great collection of easy reading short mysteries
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 134 more book reviews
...amply demonstrates Clark's skill at maintaining suspense by creating nightmarish situations that lie beneath the surface of ordinary life.
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 137 more book reviews
Riveting, suspenceful short stories.
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 13 more book reviews
Mary Higgins Clark's many fans will welcome her first collection of short fiction, because it continues doing what she does so well.
TinkerPirate avatar reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 61 more book reviews
What you expect from Clark. Good stories and always enjoyable.
redhatter avatar reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 577 more book reviews
These stories amply demonstrate Clark's skill at maintaining suspense by creating nightmarish situations that lie just beneath the surface or ordinary life.
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In the main story, Anastasia, an historical writer Judith Chase, is engaged to the future prime minister, Stephen Hallet. She is working on a novel though, and is caught up in a lot of other issues along with it. The evil mind of Margaret Carew, dominates Judith, and it is a true mystery as to what is happening within her mind. You really have to read into it to know what I am referring to here, but it becomes very frightening in many places as Judith experiences strange events. The psychiatrist, Dr. Patel, puts her under hypnosis, giving her a drug that makes her regress further into her confusing past.

The other stories in the book, were even scarier yet, than Anastasia
reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 367 more book reviews
n the short novel The Anastasia Syndrome, prominent historical writer Judith Chase is living in London and preparing for her marriage to Sir Stephen Hallett, expected to become England's next Prime Minister. Orphaned during World War II, Judith wants to trace her origins. In this quest, she goes to a renowned psychiatrist and becomes the victim of his experiments in regression. When a woman in a dark green cape sets off bombs in London, Sir Stephen and Judith are faced with an intangible, mysterious force threatening their very existence.

Obsessive love is the subject of Terror Stalks the Class Reunion; psychic contact with a dead twin sister is the only defense against a murder in Double Vision; Lucky Day, compared to O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, begins premonition of imminent danger; in The Lost Angel, mother follows her intuition in a harrowing search for her missing child.
justcindylou avatar reviewed The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories on + 14 more book reviews
Book is in good condition