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Gothic Tales

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Darryl Jones - editor
Narrated by: Gary Furlong
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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 30 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.

©2016 Darryl Jones (P)2018 Tantor Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Gothic Horror Scary Africa
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I purchased these Gothic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle after just finishing his complete works of Sherlock Holmes. I admit I was pining for more Sherlock, but didn't want to read a pastiche.

I preferred to imagine what Sherlock would do when faced with each fiendish character or creeping evil contained within these stories; similar to when he faced off against the Hound of the Baskervilles.

I am so glad I did!!! These stories are written in a way that bring distant times, cultures, events and places to life with a vividness that is difficult to find in jaded modern times. ACD's narrative is reassuringly familiar; yet permits each story to "breathe" in the reader's imagination, like a good vintage wine.

There is only one Arthur Conan Doyle. He does not disappoint.

Evocative, intricate & mesmerising Gothic tales

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