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By Arthur Conan Doyle,Christopher Roden,Barbara Roden,Christopher Roden ; Barbara Roden ;,Michael Dirda

Few authors have seized the mind's eye of the general public as strongly as did Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930). whilst the 1st Sherlock Holmes brief tales began to appear within the STRAND journal in 1891 his repute used to be guaranteed, and he quick turned one of many best-known writers on the earth. He used to be capable of flip his hand to just about any form of fiction: stories of poser, detection, technology fiction, comedy, romance, Napoleonic and mediaeval lifestyles, and rousing event. He created such memorable characters as Brigadier Gerard and Professor Challenger, wrote ratings of brief tales and greater than dozen novels, used to be energetic in quite a few reasons for a lot of his existence, and was once knighted by way of King Edward. but every thing he did used to be performed within the shadow of Sherlock Holmes.

This shadow has had the impression of obscuring a lot of his different paintings; paintings that, had it come from one other hand, may most likely be larger recognized and extra greatly praised this day. whereas Conan Doyle is rightly stated as a great author of detective tales, he was once additionally an finished teller of stories that includes the bizarre, the supernatural, and the terrible. It used to be a space within which, as a author, he confirmed an early curiosity: the 1st tale he's identified to have despatched for book, 'The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe', was once written whilst the writer was once merely eighteen. THE CAPTAIN OF THE 'POLE-STAR', the main entire quantity of ACD's bizarre fiction ever released, showcases this point of Conan Doyle's writing via thirty-seven tales of the mysterious and the macabre. one of the stories gathered listed here are tales of ghosts and mummies, psychic vampires and mental terror, and horrors of the earth and sky—all instructed within the inimitable sort of one of many world's maximum storytellers.

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