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Gothic Tales

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Darryl Jones - editor
Narrated by: Gary Furlong
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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 30 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.

©2016 Darryl Jones (P)2018 Tantor Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Gothic Horror Scary Africa

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I knew of one of these stories but had no idea the others existed! really engaging throughout

Fabulous!

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I really enjoyed this audiobook. Although it was 19hrs long the time seemed to fly by due mainly to finding myself lost in the wonderful tales told by a very talented narrator. Gary Furlong brought these stories to life. I will most certainly check out more of his narrations.

Fantastic stories with wonderful narration

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A varied collection of different titles by Conan Doyle. The narrator really doesn't complement the work, I couldn't go on after just a few of the short stories.

Didn't finish

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Very enjoyable gothic mysteries. The narration is good, but I do find it strange that almost every narrator on audible seems to have huge problems with the pronunciation of certain words - not the same words, but words that aren’t difficult to get right. Probably it’ll remain a bigger mystery than any of Conan Doyle’s….

Good gothic tales

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I loved the reading of this book. The narrator added life to the characters with a whole host of accents. Great job. The stories themselves are suitably dark and menacing, like Poe or Lovecraft. Some of the tales have not dated well, but putting that aside, these are a great set of short stories to listen to before sleeping....if you manage to sleep.

Great narrator really added life to these dark tales

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