This weekend spotlights a couple of collections that have their roots in the past. Yesterday’s was an anthology that plays in the sandbox of H. P. Lovecraft while today’s post is about a collection of vampire short horror stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Often when you think of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you think of his hyper-rational detective Sherlock Holmes. In truth, Doyle was profoundly interested in the mystical and supernatural.
For instances, he attended seances with the same zest, and far less cynicism than Harry Houdini. He was a friend of Bram Stoker’s and wrote several vampires stories as well as stories with vampire-like characters which are collected here.
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Vampire StoriesAuthor: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
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Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in “The American’s Tale” to the bloodsucking wife in “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,” he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women. As the bestselling Twilight series has dominated bookstores, it’s the perfect time to offer the first-ever compilation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s vampire tales. Get ready to sink your teeth into this heart-stopping anthology. Each of these twelve short stories has been pulled from obscurity and hand selected for this collection. Conan Doyle’s famous friendship with vampire king Bram Stoker is thought to have influenced these many blood-sucking tales, including “The Captain of the Pole Star,” about a medical student on an arctic voyage haunted by a heat-draining Eskimo vampire and “The Three Gables,” in which vampirism is cunningly used as a metaphor for capitalism. Featuring an introduction by world-renowned vampire expert, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, this is a must-have anthology for all vampire lovers, and for any Arthur Conan Doyle enthusiast. Table of Contents:
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