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 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 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 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 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 The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales" by Arthur Conan Doyle. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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 and Mystery written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best collection book of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book Tales of Terror and Mystery written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Sherlock, Just Good Ol’ Short Stories “This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger.” - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Horror of the Heights In his attempt to drift away from the character that defined his writings, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tries to experiment in the Tales of Terror and Mystery. This time, he takes the reader into a parallel, fantastic world where flying near-transparent monsters and man-eating large cats are causing terror in the human society. But with Sherlock Holmes gone, can anybody solve the seven mysteries? This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
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.
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 Popular Science Fiction Series by Arthur Conan Doyle The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen The Lost World written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-08-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Combo Collection (Set of 2 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains : The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen The Lost World
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.
