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Most readers know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the rational detective who epitomized deductive logic. Who could have guessed that Doyle also wrote some of the most wildly imaginative tales of horror and supernatural published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? The Horror of the Heights & Other Strange Tales collects fourteen vintage stories, told as only a master of the Victorian terror tale can tell them. In these sophisticated fictions souls change bodies, monsters haunt the upper atmosphere, séances summon creatures from the astral plane, and mummies stalk the fog shrouded streets of London. This volume features the best of Doyle's incomparable tales of the macabre, including: "The Captain of the 'Pole-Star' "—In the wild wastes of the arctic, a sea captain confronts the specter of a memory that has haunted him for much of his life. "Lot No. 249"—Woe betide the man who crossed Bellingham, a student of Egyptian lore who could reanimate the dead to do his bidding. "The Parasite"—Who was safe from the irresistible Miss Penclosa, a woman who could insert herself into a person's thoughts and assert her will against their wishes? "The

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Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher

Fall River Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811801447

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Adventure

Rating

3.67 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14