Playing With Fire - The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle

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'.

About the author

Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than one hundred books and one of the foremost historians of popular fiction with a specialism for rooting out rare short stories. His Tales of the Weird anthologies include Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories and Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy.

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.

Summary

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'.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle
• Assisted by: Mike Ashley (Editor), Ashley Mike (Editor)
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780712354257
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5425-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: British Library Hardback Class
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, Classic horror & ghost stories, Horror and supernatural fiction, Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic fiction: general and literary, gothic; horror; rare