Comparing And Then There Were None And The Mortals In The House

Many elements of gothic literature can be seen in both Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and “The Mortals in the House” by Charles Dickens. In And Then There Were None, author Agatha Christie shows how the repeated deaths on the remote eventually become something the characters can anticipate. Similarly, Dickens depicts a tale where the haunting within the weathered house is so common it becomes normal to the guests. However, in Christie’s novel the consistent murder drives the characters to madness as they create what they believe is supernatural whereas, Dicken’s characters rejoice in what they believe is usual but is actually supernatural.
Supernatural elements do vary between the two stories. An alluded possession and a vague scene