To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning.

This represents the world-famous author's most successful foray into the dark world of murder and black magic. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit.

Read about the other new British TV dramas on their way here.A dark offering from the Queen of Crime. It’s starting on Sunday the 9th of February 2020 at 9pm on BBC One, and will arrive on Amazon Prime Video outside the UK at a later date. “Asking the question ‘how far would you go to protect your own happiness?’ It’s a tale of guilt, terror and witchcraft which we hope will delight and terrify viewers in equal measure!” The Pale Horse release date: arriving in February “Sarah Phelps has crafted an extraordinary adaptation of Agatha Christie’s celebrated 1960s novel The Pale Horse, where the rational world and dark supernatural forces seem to collide,” pitched in Helen Ziegler, executive producer for Mammoth. It’s about what we’re capable of when we’re desperate and what we believe when all the lights go out and we’re alone in the dark.” Phelps added, “Written in 1961, against the backdrop of the Eichmann Trial, the escalation of the Cold War and Vietnam, The Pale Horse is a shivery, paranoid story about superstition, love gone wrong, guilt and grief. “This new drama allows writer Sarah Phelps to continue her exploration of the 20th century through Christie’s stories, with the book’s fantastic, foreboding atmosphere completely suited to Sarah’s unique style of adaptation.” “ The Pale Horse was one of the later novels penned by my great grandmother, written as it was in the 1960s,” mused James Prichard, executive producer and CEO of Agatha Christie Limited, in a statement. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using dark arts, but as the bodies mount up, Easterbrook is certain there has to be a rational explanation. He is drawn to The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumoured witches in the small village of Much Deeping. Here’s a quick synopsis of The Pale Horse, if you’ve not read the book.Ī mysterious list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, and one of those named, Mark Easterbrook, begins an investigation into how and why his name came to be there. The Pale Horse plot: dark arts and mounting bodies

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