Gothic tales:
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 inc...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 Tales. 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. 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 |
| Beschreibung: | xl, 549 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780198734291 0198734298 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Introduction ix
Note on the Text xxxiv
Select Bibliography xxxv
Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle xxxvii
THE TALES
The American’s Tale 3
The Captain of the Tolestar’ io
The Winning Shot 32
J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement 63
John Barrington Cowles 91
Uncle Jeremy’s Household 113
The Ring of Thoth 150
The Surgeon of Caster Fell 166
A Pastoral Horror 185
T)e Profundis’ 201
Lot No. 249 210
The Los Amigos Fiasco 241
The Case of Lady Sannox 248
The Lord of Chateau Noir 258
The Third Generation 269
The Striped Chest 278
The Fiend of the Cooperage 291
The Beetle-Hunter 303
viii Contents
The Sealed Room 3*8
The Brazilian Cat 330
The New Catacomb 348
The Retirement of Signor Lambert 361
The Brown Hand 370
Playing with Fire 384
The Leather Funnel 397
The Pot of Caviare 408
The Silver Mirror 421
The Terror of Blue John Gap 430
Through the Veil 446
How It Happened 451
The Horror of the Heights 455
The Bully of Brocas Court 470
The Nightmare Room 482
The Lift 489
Explanatory Notes 501
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