The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle

by Doyle, Arthur Conan; Waugh, Charles; Greenberg, Martin Harry; Frank D, McSherry

• ISBN13: 9780897332651
• ISBN10: 0897332652
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers

Summary

Though best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also an accomplished writer of the most chilling horror stories of the 20th century. Written during the same period as the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, these horror stories share the darkness of Doyle's more well-known works, if not always their logical conclusions. Together they paint quite a different picture of Doyle than do his detective pieces, illuminating a writer as fascinated by the supernatural and the unsolveable as by the science of modern detection.

Author Biography

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born of Irish parentage in Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but he also had a passion for storytelling. His first book introduced that prototype of the modern detective in fiction, Sherlock Holmes. Despite the immense popularity Holmes gained throughout the world, Doyle was not overly fond of the character and preferred to write other stories. Eventually popular demand won out and he continued to satisfy readers with the adventures of the legendary sleuth. He also wrote historical romances and made two essays into pseudoscientific fantasy: The Lost World and The Poison Belt.

McSherry is an artist and writer. His articles and stories have appeared in such magazines as The Armchair Detective and Mike Shayne.

Table of Contents

Introduction	i
The Caption of the Polestar	1	(30)
The Case of Lady Sannox	31	(13)
The Fiend of the Cooperage	44	(16)
The Horror of the Heights	60	(20)
J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement	80	(39)
John Barrington Cowles	119	(30)
The Leather Funnel	149	(15)
The Lift	164	(15)
Lot No. 249	179	(40)
The New Catacomb	219	(18)
The Silver Hatchet	237	(19)
The Striped Chest	256	(17)
The Terror of Blue John Gap	273