Tales of Terror and Mystery
READING AGE 12+
Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful tales he wrote outside of that cycle. In this collection, first published in 1922, he compiled various pieces of short fiction which fall into the categories of horror and detective fiction, two genres for which he has become a byword. These eclectic, captivating tales - dealing with topics such as mysterious jungles in the sky, seventeenth-century t*****e techniques, a bloodthirsty Brazilian cat and a train mysteriously disappearing between two stations - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at his creative best.
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"He was certainly a man of iron nerve. He took my remarks without a sign either of surprise or of defiance, but listened gravely and attentively until I had finished. Then he walked across the room without a word and struck the bell.
"'Ask Miss Andreas to be so kind as to step this way,' said he to the servant.
"My daughter entered, ……
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