Horror of the Heights & Other Strange Tales

Horror of the Heights & Other Strange Tales Synopsis

Most readers know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the rational detective who epitomized deductive logic. Who could have guessed that Doyle also wrote some of the most wildly imaginative tales of horror and supernatural published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?The Horror of the Heights & Other Strange Tales collects fourteen vintage stories, told as only a master of the Victorian terror tale can tell them. In these sophisticated fictions souls change bodies, monsters haunt the upper atmosphere, sances summon creatures from the astral plane, and mummies stalk the fog shrouded streets of London. This volume features the best of Doyles incomparable tales of the macabre, including:The Captain of the Pole-Star In the wild wastes of the arctic, a sea captain confronts the specter of a memory that has haunted him for much of his life.Lot No. 249Woe betide the man who crossed Bellingham, a student of Egyptian lore who could reanimate the dead to do his bidding.The ParasiteWho was safe from the irresistible Miss Penclosa, a woman who could insert herself into a persons thoughts and assert her will against their wishes?The Leather FunnelAnyone who slept in the room with the antique artifact endured horrible dreams of cruel tortures.The Horror of the HeightsThe first aeronaut to ascend to the stratosphere finds it populated by a species that is alienand hostile.Open this book and enter a world of gas-lit thrills and chills, where the most logical thing of all is to be scared.