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Round the Fire Stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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In the present collection those stories have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—such tales as might well be read “round the fire” upon a winter’s night. This would be my ideal atmosphere for such stories, if an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the light and hanging of his picture. However, if they have the good fortune to give pleasure to any one, at any time or place, their author will be very satisfied.
In the present collection those stories have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—such tales as might well be read “round the fire” upon a winter’s night. This would be my ideal atmosphere for such stories, if an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the light and hanging of his picture. However, if they have the good fortune to give pleasure to any one, at any time or place, their author will be very satisfied.
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“Having now got our young man without his ticket into the carriage in which the elder man and the young woman are travelling, it is not difficult to imagine that a violent scene ensued. It is possible that the pair were also Americans, which is the more probable as the man carried a weapon—an unusual thing in England. If our supposition of incipient mania is correct, the young man is likely to have assaulted the other. As the upshot of the quarrel the elder man shot the intruder, and then made his escape from the carriage, taking the young lady with him. We will suppose that all this happened very rapidly, and that the train was still going at so slow a pace that it was not difficult for them to leave it. A woman might leave a train 52going at eight miles an hour. As a matter of fact, we know that this woman did do so.
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"I have myself, in my complex nature, a hunger after all which is bizarre and fantastic." (pg. 6)
A good and endearing collection of short stories from the prolific Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were conceived, Doyle's preface tells us, to be of the sort enjoyed by the reader round a fire on a
Impressive collection of short horror stories, mystery and murder tales
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had an admirable talent as a creator of chilling tales which had a surprise ending. I always esteemed him for his Sherlock Holmes masterpieces. What a pleasure to discover him also as the master of horror
4.22⭐
This is a collection of seventeen short stories. As Conan Doyle wrote in his preface, this volume includes stories concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible.
Frontispiece by André Castaigne
I. The Leather Funnel 4.25⭐
II. The Beetle Hunter 4⭐
III. The Man with the Watches 4.25⭐
IV. The Pot
Some stories were a bit of a stretch, but a great collection on the whole. All are horror stories, but quite a number aren't supernatural horror. It's a good thing to mix it in, just to remind us that sometimes the real monsters aren't made of smoke and mist!
These short stories all feature some horrific circumstance or frightening apparition. There are terrifying nightmares, murder, ghosts, seances, dangerous exotic animals, and stolen jewels. Each story gradually leads into more and more suspicious circumstances until the hero of the tale is finally co