Tales of Terror and Mystery Xist Classics edition by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literature Fiction eBooks
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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?
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Tales of Terror and Mystery Xist Classics edition by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literature Fiction eBooks
Poor Conan Doyle. He will always be tethered to a pipe smoking know-it-all. Yet, something ate away at the author. He sought to expunge deeper and darker imaginings so wrote fiction that could not be solved by The Great Detective. I am happy that he did. This collection is a fun treasure that got me wondering more about the man and his interests. Not all tales compel but those that do are certainly worth the read."The Horror of the Heights" was written when man was first exploring the skies. It makes incredible sense that humankind would be fearful of what lay above us just as we had in dark lakes and seas. I love that he calls it an "air-jungle" fraught with risk and danger, "This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger."
"The Leather Funnel" was both mystery and terror. One that has relevance to today. ***Spoiler alert...this is a waterboarding story but told with cruel elegance. I loved this line, "The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow." And we know from history that Conan Doyle was fascinated with moving the mysterious to the commonplace.
"The New Catacomb" plunges into the depths of revenge while "The Brazilian Cat" shows what happens if habit and assumption conspire to scratch you dead. I do believe "The Beetle-Hunter" explores more than a first read gives credit. There is a foreshadowing of what Carver and Cheever would depict in idle drinking, loss of self, and induced insanity. Between brilliance and insanity is the thinnest of lines and that is what comes out in this collection.
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Tales of Terror and Mystery Xist Classics edition by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I never got to read other short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when I was younger as I was totally hooked on Sherlock Holmes as a child and did not really look for other books he had written. I am very happy to acquire this compilation of stories.
Though very old-fashioned in tone and writing style, the stories do grip your imagination. It may drag a bit for those not used to the classic writers of the past as there is a lot more descriptive writing than what normally passes for today's fiction. But the nice thing is that the stories are original in their idea and not derivative as so many are today.
Some very nice surprises in this collection.
This collection of twelve short-stories was first published in 1922. Six are classified by the author (or more likely the publisher) as “tales of terror”; and the other six, classified as “tales of mystery.” Most if not all of these had been published earlier as individual pieces in literary periodicals of the day, primarily the “Strand Magazine.” Many of them also appear in other collections of Conan Doyle’s short stories “The Case of Lady Sannox,” classified as a tale of terror, also appears in “Round the Red Lamp,” an earlier collection of medical tales which I had previously read; and several of the tales of mystery are also in “Round the Fire,” an earlier collection that I have not yet encountered in its collective form.
In my opinion “The Case of Lady Sannox,” “The New Catacomb,” and “The Brazilian Cat,” are the best of the terror tales, with Lady Sannox being similar to something that Poe might have written. My favorites of the mystery tales were “The Lost Special,” “The Beetle Hunter,” “The Japanned Box,” and “The Jew’s Breastplate.” Two of the mystery tales, “The Lost Special” and “The Man with the Watches,” tell of mysterious disappearances involving trains. “The Lost Special” mentions “an amateur reasoner of some celebrity”; and “The Man with Six Watches” includes a letter “over the signature of a well-known criminal investigator.” The unnamed reasoner/investigator is obviously suggestive of Sherlock Holmes; but in both tales, his speculations prove ultimately to be incorrect. The author was having a bit of fun by including these minor Holmesian roles, somewhat like Alfred Hitchcock making cameo appearances in movies that he directed.
The strangest of the stories, and the only one that is utterly impossible in light of today’s science is “The Horror of the Heights,” which speculates about an “atmospheric jungle” somewhere above an elevation of 30,000 feet that is inhabited by lighter-than-air flora and fauna. “The Leather Funnel” and “The Terror of Blue John Gap” both involve some aspects of the supernatural or paranormal; but the first is based, in part, on a documented historical event, and the second is no more unlikely than sightings of an actual Bigfoot. For all the other stories, the characters, situations and events, albeit more or less implausible, are entirely possible. Unfortunately, “Horror of the Heights” and “Leather Funnel” are the first two stories presented in this collection and were the most difficult for me to enjoy; however, I did push on through them. Don’t get discouraged by the first couple of tales. The remainder are more in keeping with Sir Arthur’s normal standards.
Book includes the twelve tales
1) Horror of the Heights
2) The Leather Funnel
3) The New Catacomb
4) The Case of Lady Sannox
5) The Terror of Blue John Gap
6) The Brazilian Cat
7) The Lost Special
8) The Beetle-Hunter
9) The Man With the Watches
10) The Japanned Box
11) The Black Doctor
12) The Jew's Breast-Plate
While one illustration at the beginning of each story is nothing to write home about, at least it provided some basis to locate a story of interest by matter of a break point since this book was sorely lacking handy links from the table of contents to otherwise access said story quickly in any order you choose. My favorite of the twelve was "The Black Doctor" for the ease of which the tale flowed and the intrigue as to how the identity of the murdered man was eventually revealed. As a precursor to the widely popular Sherlock Holmes character the tales of mystery really do remind one of Sherlock Holmes. Book is in need of better formatting as well, but I can't complain about the price since each tale if sold individually is 99 cents a piece, so short of buying the public domain ebook I clearly saved a bundle on some fine works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
Poor Conan Doyle. He will always be tethered to a pipe smoking know-it-all. Yet, something ate away at the author. He sought to expunge deeper and darker imaginings so wrote fiction that could not be solved by The Great Detective. I am happy that he did. This collection is a fun treasure that got me wondering more about the man and his interests. Not all tales compel but those that do are certainly worth the read.
"The Horror of the Heights" was written when man was first exploring the skies. It makes incredible sense that humankind would be fearful of what lay above us just as we had in dark lakes and seas. I love that he calls it an "air-jungle" fraught with risk and danger, "This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular and unexpected danger."
"The Leather Funnel" was both mystery and terror. One that has relevance to today. ***Spoiler alert...this is a waterboarding story but told with cruel elegance. I loved this line, "The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow." And we know from history that Conan Doyle was fascinated with moving the mysterious to the commonplace.
"The New Catacomb" plunges into the depths of revenge while "The Brazilian Cat" shows what happens if habit and assumption conspire to scratch you dead. I do believe "The Beetle-Hunter" explores more than a first read gives credit. There is a foreshadowing of what Carver and Cheever would depict in idle drinking, loss of self, and induced insanity. Between brilliance and insanity is the thinnest of lines and that is what comes out in this collection.
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