Horror Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Horror Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Horror Stories
Tales of Ghosts, Curses, Mummies, and Zombies

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 20 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/19/2013


Synopsis

A spine-tingling collection of weird and wonderful horror stories, featuring ghosts, curses, strange phenomena, ghouls, black magic, and demonic apparitions. Do you dare to listen?

"Nyarlathotep", by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Ship that saw a Ghost", by Frank Norris
"Lost in a Pyramid", by Louisa May Alcott
"The Girl Who Was Tired of Love", by Leonard Merrick
"The Brothers", by Stacy Aumonier
"The Devil’s Spectacles", by Wilkie Collins
"Glad Ghosts", by D. H. Lawrence
"The Mummy’s Foot", by Théophile Gautier
"The Ring of Thoth", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Famous Race Between the Hearse and the Steamroller", by Sidney Keyes
"Lot No. 249", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Pit and the Pendulum", by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Money’s Paw", by W. W. Jacobs
"My Favorite Murder", by Ambrose Bierce
"The Fall of the House of Usher", by Edgar Allan Poe
"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", by Harry Houdini and H. P. Lovecraft
"The Story of Baelbrow", by E. & H. Heron
"The Idiot", by Arnold Bennett
"Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty" by Stacy Aumonier
"The Premature Burial", by Edgar Allan Poe
"Sredni Vashtar", by Saki
"The Masque of the Red Death", by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Lifted Veil", by George Eliot
"The Telltale Heart", by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Withered Arm", by Thomas Hardy
"Smith and the Pharaohs", by H. Rider Haggard
"A Professor of Egyptology", by Guy Boothby

About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer whose works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction, is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons, and comic books. By 1920, Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world. Other works by Doyle include The Lost World, the first book in the Professor Challenger series; The White Company, one of his many historical novels; and The Great Boer War.

Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh, in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884, he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full-time writer. Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887 and introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson.

During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902), Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital. There he wrote The War in South Africa, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex. He died himself in 1930.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Althea on July 30, 2016

E.T.A. HOFFMANN, The Sandman (1816). Remarkably modern-feeling in theme, probably because lately we've had quite a few writers harking back to this kind of story. The sinister traveling merchant Coppelius/Coppola, selling his 'eyes-a' is reflected in “Ilse, Who Saw Clearly” by E. Lily Yu, for exampl......more

Goodreads review by Jay on August 20, 2021

Good roundup of the usual suspects.........more