Gothic Tales by Conan Doyle, Arthur

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Author: Conan Doyle, ArthurHistorical mysteriesPublished on 22 March 2018 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom as part of the Oxford Worlds Classics series.Paperback | 592 pages129 x 196 x 26 | 408g
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 Doyles writings are recognised 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 Doyles best Gothic Tales. Darryl Joness introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyles 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.