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.
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:
Download or read book The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Teller of Tales written by Daniel Stashower and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review) This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and George Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as one of his adventures. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, Daniel Stashower's Teller of Tales sets aside many myths and misconceptions to present a vivid portrait of the man behind the legend of Baker Street, with a particular emphasis on the Psychic Crusade that dominated his final years--the work that Conan Doyle himself felt to be "the most important thing in the world."
Download or read book The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 310 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.
Download or read book The Lost World and Other Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1995 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist of these stories is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. In these collected tales he faces adventures such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in "The Lost World" and the challenges of"The Land of Mist."
Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final helping of Conan Doyle's tales of strange events in this world and beyond This is the final volume of the Leonaur special edition of the collected tales of the uncanny by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Each volume is substantial-over 400 pages each-and together they bring together perhaps the most comprehensive collection of Doyle's weird and supernatural fiction now available. This fine looking set is available in softcover and hardcover with dust wrapper for bibliophiles everywhere. This volume continues the pace set by its predecessors with the novel, 'The Mystery of Cloomber.' two novelettes, 'The Parasite' and 'The Black Doctor' together with thirteen short stories each one demonstrating Doyle's skill at portraying the unearthly, the chilling, the odd and the peculiar. Among them readers will discover, 'The Horror of the Heights.' 'The Silver Hatchet, ' 'The Fiend of the Cooperage, ' 'Selecting a Ghost, ' 'The Lift, ' 'The Silver Mirror' and many others. This Leonaur three volume set in coordinating covers, is available in softcover and in hardcover with dustjacket making it an essential addition to the libraries of collectors.
Download or read book Best Short Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have in your hands a collection of the best non-Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, whose famous detective continually overshadows his other lesser-known (but often excellent) writing. The stories collected here include mystery, occult and supernatural tales, and humorous or satirical pieces, all from one of the finest popular writers of the late 19th and early 20th century. CONTENTS: - The Brown Hand - The Terror of Blue John Gap - The Captain of the Pole-Star - The Great Keinplatz Experiment - The Man from Archangel - The Ring of Thoth - Lot No. 249 - The Case of Lady Sannox - The Horror of the Heights - The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
Download or read book Tales of Terror and Mystery written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imaginative of plotters would hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned and tragic facts which reinforce the statement. Though the assertions contained in it are amazing and even monstrous, it is none the less forcing itself upon the general intelligence that they are true, and that we must readjust our ideas to the new situation. This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger.
Download or read book The Captain of the Polestar And Other Tales written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1896-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS The Captain of the ôPole-Starö J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement The Great Keinplatz Experiment The Man from Archangel That Little Square Box John Huxford's Hiatus Cyprian Overbeck Wells John Barrington Cowles Elias B. Hopkins The Ring of Thoth
Download or read book The Best of Sherlock Holmes written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best twenty tales of Conan Doyle.
Download or read book When the World Screamed written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Challenger returns to test one of his theories by digging underground and poking the planet in this classic adventure story. In The Lost World, Professor Challenger and reporter Edward Malone found dinosaurs living in the Amazon. In The Poison Belt, they witnessed chaos as Earth passed through a cloud of poison gas. Now, with the help of Peerless Jones, an expert in Artesian boring, they seek to test the professor’s Echinus theory . . . Professor Challenger believes that Earth is a sentient being. Like the sea urchin, it is protected by an outer layer, unaware of what happens on its surface. Challenger wants to dig beneath Earth’s protective layer, its crust, and touch the creature inside to let it know humanity is here. But what the men find underground is quite surprising . . .
Download or read book Gothic Tales written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic stories. Many of Doyle's writings are recognized as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best "Gothic Tales," in a scholarly edition for the first time. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic.
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.
Download or read book A Study in Terror Volume 1 written by Derrick Belanger and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of those authors whose literary creation is much more famous than the man himself. Those who do know the name Arthur Conan Doyle tend to know him only as the inventor of the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. A smaller segment of this group goes further and remembers Doyle as the inventor of the great detective who squandered his fame with crackpot beliefs in faeries and the supernatural. Sadly, there is so much more to the man who revolutionized the writing not just of detective fiction but also of the genre of horror, the supernatural, and even influenced history itself. This two volume anthology's point is to put Doyle back on the pedestal he so rightly deserves. Its aim is twofold. First, to introduce readers to Doyle's lesser known (yet no less important) works. These works speak for themselves in showing a master writer at his craft. The stories are timeless, enjoyable, and hopefully will lead to new fans embracing a great author's somewhat forgotten tales. The second aim is to show the relevance of Doyle's works. Through a collection of articles written by current scholars and experts, readers can see just how revolutionary Doyle's writings remain even today.
