Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Doyle's 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 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.
Title: Gothic Tales
Author(s): Conan Doyle Arthur, Jones, Darryl (Professor Of English And Dean Of The Faculty Of Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198734307
Pages: 592 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2018
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Short Stories