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01996aam a2200289Mi 4500 001 CE96282600A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 160318s2016 enk b 000 j eng d 020 $a 0198734298 020 $a 9780198734291 035 $a (OCoLC)962889031 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d NJM $d OCLCF $d SILO 050 4 $a PR4621 J66 2016 100 1 $a Doyle, Arthur Conan, $d 1859-1930, $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 10 $a Gothic tales / $c Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited with an introduction and notes by Darryl Jones. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xl, 549 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 8 $a There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic Tales. Many of Doyle's writings are recognized as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 650 0 $a Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English. 700 1 $a Jones, Darryl, $d 1967- $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170706034632.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CE96282600A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search