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Tales of Terror

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror

Original publication
1922
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
446
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Horror
Translated from
English

Book summary

A collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, gathered in 1922: six tales of terror and six of mystery, with no detective and no recurring hero. An aviator climbs higher than any record to find out whether creatures live in the sky; a doctor, resting on a farm in Derbyshire, grows uneasy about sheep vanishing near a cave; a special train hired in Liverpool disappears in broad daylight between two stations. The heroes are rational people facing what they cannot explain. Short, tense stories from the age of steam trains and the first aeroplanes.

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.

The author

A Scottish doctor with a taste for adventure. As a young doctor, he kept goal for a football team. In Switzerland, he sent to Norway for skis and crossed a mountain on them with two guides. His account made the British…

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