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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 29, 2009 20:50:44 GMT
A. Conan Doyle - The Black Doctor and Other Tales of Mystery and Terror (George H Doran 1919)  CONTENTS:TALES OF TERROR:
The Horror of the Heights
The Leather Funnel
The New Catacomb
The Case of Lady Sannox
The Terror of Blue John Gap
The Brazillian Cat
TALES OF MYSTERY:
The Lost Special
The Beetle-Hunter
The Man with the Watches
The Japanned Box
The Black Doctor
The Jew's Breastplate
The Nightmare Room
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Post by dem bones on Jan 29, 2009 22:27:04 GMT
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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 29, 2009 22:38:59 GMT
Now that is a lovely cover. Another book for the 'to get' list......
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Mar 4, 2009 11:06:04 GMT
That Alan Lee cover is wonderful. It has a strong touch of Sidney Paget about it, which is pretty appropriate for a Conan Doyle collection.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 4, 2009 12:01:21 GMT
It's a great choice of story to illustrate too. I don't know why, maybe because it's entirely bereft on any hint of the supernatural, but The New Catacombs has been largely overlooked by horror anthologists when, it seems to me, it's just about the nastiest tale he wrote this side of the splendid, pointlessly spiteful The Leather Funnel.
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Post by albie on Mar 4, 2009 13:10:59 GMT
That was indeed a memorable tale.
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Post by lobolover on Mar 4, 2009 17:18:18 GMT
So, the "mystery" stories are the ones which are......filler? I remember reading and being monumentarily disapointed by The Beetle colector. They didnt need the guy as a beetle expert,but only as somebody to blab his way into someone's confidence and then help hold him down when he gets a fit. And Doyle didnt even handle the mad man's rage , nor the ending where he "recovered"-,yes, take away every possible point of merritt why dont you?  |
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