The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle - Brossura

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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ISBN 10: 0897332652 ISBN 13: 9780897332651

Casa editrice: Academy Chicago Pub, 1990

Riassunto

These horror stories -- never before compiled in one volume -- are carefully crafted, compelling and believable. Written in about the same decade as the Sherlock Holmes series, they will convince you that Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of more than just the detective story.

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L'autore:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born of Irish parentage in Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but he also had a passion for storytelling. His first book introduced that prototype of the modern detective in fiction, Sherlock Holmes. Despite the immense popularity Holmes gained throughout the world, Doyle was not overly fond of the character and preferred to write other stories. Eventually popular demand won out and he continued to satisfy readers with the adventures of the legendary sleuth. He also wrote historical romances and made two essays into pseudoscientific fantasy: The Lost World and The Poison Belt.

McSherry is an artist and writer. His articles and stories have appeared in such magazines as The Armchair Detective and Mike Shayne.

Product Description:

Though best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also an accomplished writer of the most chilling horror stories of the 20th century. Written during the same period as the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, these horror stories share the darkness of Doyle's more well-known works, if not always their logical conclusions. Together they paint quite a different picture of Doyle than do his detective pieces, illuminating a writer as fascinated by the supernatural and the unsolveable as by the science of modern detection.

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• Editore: Academy Chicago Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0897332652
• ISBN 13: 9780897332651
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 294
• Redattore: McSherry Frank D., Greenberg Martin Harry, Waugh Charles G.