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Playing with Fire: The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle

Hardback

Main Details

Title Playing with Fire: The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Mike Ashley
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 149
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
Horror and ghost stories
Classic horror and ghost stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780712354257
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher British Library Publishing
Imprint British Library Publishing
Publication Date 24 September 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The luminous fog drifted slowly off the table and wavered and flickered across the room. There in the farther and darkest corner it gathered and glowed, hardening down into a shining core... Although best known for the stories of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a remarkable number of weird and supernatural tales. Pulling at this thread of his fiction reveals a writer deeply fascinated in matters of the occult, the uncanny and the unexplainable, with his belief in spiritualism later in life only adding to his passion for the unknown. This volume collects Doyle's most enduring strange stories - ranging from monster encounters and deadly hauntings to dark tales of mesmerism - and also includes a new introduction along with Doyle's never-before-reprinted essay on his own spiritual experiences, 'Stranger than Fiction'.

Author Biography

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer, physician and spiritualist, world famous today as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Along with detective stories, he wrote numerous tales of historical events and fictional expeditions such as the influential novel of prehistoric discovery The Lost World.