Tales of Terror and Mystery (Best Novel Classics #52)

Success Oceo (Editor), Arthur Conan Doyle

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Publication Date: August 14th, 2016

Publisher:

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN:

9781537090429

Pages:

170

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Arthur Conan Doyle was a prolific writer, and his Sherlock Holmes stories, while the best known of his work, were only a fraction of what he wrote. This book is a collection of twelve short stories broken up into two topics; six stories on terror and six on mystery.

Doyle didn't write too many mystery stories that did NOT involve Sherlock Holmes, and these are some of them. As is well-known, Doyle was a fanatic spiritualist, and many of the tales of terror deal with some strange stuff - weird creatures living in the upper atmosphere, for example.

Conan Doyle excels at the Short Story department too. Even without Holmes, Doyle's naturally and incredibly talented legendary detective, Doyle rocks this short story arena

Contents: Tales of Terror: 1. The Horror of the Heights2. The Leather Funnel3. The New Catacomb4. The Case of Lady Sannox5. The Terror of Blue John Gap6. The Brazilian Cat

Tales of Mystery1. The Lost Special2. The Beetle-Hunter3. The Man with the Watches4. The Japanned Box5. The Black Doctor6. The Jew's Breastplate

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About the Author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle(22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was an Irish-Scots writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to the Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine (1868-70). He then went on to Stonyhurst College until 1875. From 1875 to 1876, he was educated at the Jesuit school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria. From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, including periods working in Aston (then a town in Warwickshire, now part of Birmingham), Sheffield and Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire. Doyle struggled to find a publisher for his work. His first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, A Study in Scarlet, was taken by Ward Lock & Co on 20 November 1886, giving Doyle £25 (£2500 today) for all rights to the story. The piece appeared one year later in the Beeton's Christmas Annual and received good reviews in The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald. While living in Southsea, Doyle played football as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur side, under the pseudonym A. C. Smith.