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Tales of Terror and Mystery

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

Paper book: €35.99

Digital: €10.99

Original publication
1922
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
553
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Horror
Moods
Solve a mystery, Get the chills
Translated from
English

Book summary

An airman climbs higher than any record to find out whether creatures live in the sky. A doctor resting on a farm in Derbyshire grows worried about sheep that disappear near a cave. A special train hired in Liverpool vanishes in broad daylight between two stations.

These twelve stories, six of terror and six of mystery, are by Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Here there is no detective: reasonable people face what they cannot explain.

Short and tense, each one can be read in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

Three stories, three unsettling beginnings. In Liverpool, a traveller in a hurry hires a train all to himself. In broad daylight, the train vanishes between two stations.

The world of the book

In the age of trains and the first aeroplanes. The book brings together twelve short stories, six of terror and six of mystery. Most take place in England, on trains, in manor houses, a museum or a cave.

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