The Best Horror Stories Of Arthur Conan Doyle

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897338979
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These horror stories -- never before compiled in one volume -- are carefully crafted, compelling and believable. Written in about the same decade as the Sherlock Holmes series, they will convince you that Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of more than just the detective story.

Author : A. C. Doyle
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143201
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle written by A. C. Doyle and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Sherlock Holmes When Holmes wearied of mundane Victorian reality, he reached for the cocaine; his creator Doyle reached beyond reality, to the occult mystery world as real to him as a hansom cab—so real that it became part of his fiction. It is no surprise that in the year "A Study in Scarlet" appeared (1887), this versatile writer was reading seriously in spiritualism, attending séances, and had already written some of the thrilling tales in this book. The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle gathers together for the first time in an American edition the fifteen finest short stories in this genre by the master storyteller. Relative to his vast literary output, Doyle wrote comparatively few stories dealing specifically with spiritualism, Egyptian magic, psychometry, and other occult domains he knew so thoroughly — and these scattered stories, skeptically dismissed or simply buried beneath the mass of his detective, historical, sports, medical, and other pieces, have yet to receive their due as superior or typical examples of his narrative power. The polymath Doyle has recourse to many twilit borderline realms of the beyond in these stories which appeared in various periodicals from 1880 to 1921. "The Bully of Brocas Court" gives a new slant to the Victorian ghost story in one of Doyle's favorite settings, the world of boxing. "The Captain of the Polestar" recalls the weird northern backdrop of the author's whaling adventures; "The Brown Hand" deals in body-soul bondage with a touch of the East. Two hackle-raising histories, "Lot No. 249" and "The Ring of Thoth," depend on the riddle of Egyptian mummy lore; "The Leather Funnel" and "The Silver Hatchet" involve psychometry, a material object's retention of an aura or memory of its past, which a sensitive being can "replay" through dreams. And then there is "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement," Doyle's speculative solution to the Marie Celeste conundrum, which was vehemently denounced when published (anonymously) because it seemed so true and so terrible. Doyle readers, students of the occult, and anyone who loves an imaginative tale will wish to experience, through these obscure, rarely reprinted stories, what was personally so close to their author.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
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Download or read book The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 142708145X
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horror Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle's Horror Stories is a collection of two tales. The Horror of the Heights is a tale of the early days of air travel: a bold and brave pilot discovers alien creatures threatening man in the recesses of space. The Terror of Blue John Gap concerns a pre-historic beast dwelling in the caves of John Gap and threatening the local village.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442945575
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horror Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle's Horror Stories is a collection of two tales. The Horror of the Heights is a tale of the early days of air travel: a bold and brave pilot discovers alien creatures threatening man in the recesses of space. The Terror of Blue John Gap concerns a pre-historic beast dwelling in the caves of John Gap and threatening the local village.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Mystery and Horror Fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle : Round the Red Lamp/The Parasite /Round the Fire Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-08-13 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains : Round the Red Lamp The Parasite Round the Fire Stories

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 : 9780517162019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Doyle
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781512214062
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lot No. 249 and Other Horrors written by Arthur Doyle and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is most widely known today for his logical skeptic, Sherlock Holmes, horror aficionados recognize him as the inventor of the malevolent mummy, the writer of one of English literature's best ghost stories, and an early dabbler in Lovecraftian weird fiction. Indeed, Doyle is to the mummy what Stoker is to the vampire, and his tales of pickaxe-wielding serial killers, haunted torture instruments, specters in the sunless North Pole, seductive werewolves, gelatinous monsters in the skies above us, and seances gone awry are just as chilling as Holmes adventures are thrilling. Among its lushly illustrated stories, this annotated collection of Doyle's very best horror stories includes his two famous mummy stories (which were merged to form the plot of the 1932 Boris Karloff film), his aviation spine-tingler "The Horror of the Heights" (which presages Lovecraft beautifully), and his most elegant ghost story, "The Captain of the Polestar," not to mention two of Sherlock Holmes' most terrifying cases. Richly painted with a broad brush, Doyle's supernatural fiction spans a myriad of delightful tropes -- zombies, psychopaths, torture chambers, werewolves, vampires, reincarnations, haunted antiques, rampaging elementals, and more than one old fashioned English ghost -- so whether you are a fan of the Great Detective or tales of the great beyond, you are sure to be pleased.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840224061
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Unease written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HORROR & GHOST STORIES. Selected and with an introduction by David Stuart Davies, this gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by "The Ring of Thoth" to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in "The Captain of the Polestar", we encounter a monstrous creature in "The Terror of Blue John Cap" and the beings that live above our heads in "The Brazilian Cat" and "The Leather Funnel"; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in Lot 249. Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Magic Lamp Press
ISBN 13 : 9781882629558
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Terror & Mystery written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Magic Lamp Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his tales of Sherlock Homes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also knows how to write a scary story. Guaranteed to make your spine tingle, this excellent collection includes "The Horror of the Heights," "The Leather Funnel," "The New Catacomb," "The Case of Lady Sannox," "The Terror of Blue John Gap," "The Brazilian Cat," "The Lost Special," "The Beetle-Hunter," "The Man with the Watches," "The Japanned Box," "The Black Doctor," and "The Jew's Breastplate." This edition has been newly formatted and typeset for modern readers by Waking Lion Press.