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Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many tales of horror and mystery besides his Sherlock Holmes stories, and this collection gathers thirteen of them. In 'The Horror…
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many tales of horror and mystery besides his Sherlock Holmes stories, and this collection gathers thirteen of them. In 'The Horror of the Heights', a pilot climbing higher than anyone before discovers monstrous creatures living in the upper air; in 'The Terror of Blue John Gap', something huge lives in the caves of Derbyshire; 'The Leather Funnel' brings a dreamer back to a torture chamber of seventeenth-century France; and in 'The Lost Special', a whole train vanishes between two stations. There are also tales of a deadly Brazilian cat, a Jewish high priest's breastplate and a doctor's revenge.
Context and significance
Doyle published the collection in 1922, and its stories show his gift for building suspense from rational explanation. Holmes's own most frightening case is The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Doyle's adventure among dinosaurs is The Lost World.
About the author
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born in Edinburgh, trained as a doctor and wrote stories while waiting for patients at his practice in Southsea. Sherlock Holmes, modelled partly on his old teacher Joseph Bell, who could diagnose a patient's life at a glance, first appeared in 1887 and soon made Doyle one of the best-paid writers in the world.