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Gothic Tales
Gothic Tales
Gothic Tales
Audiobook19 hours

Gothic Tales

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by Gary Furlong

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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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 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.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 2, 2018
ISBN9781541446021
Gothic Tales
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Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The term "gothic" is used for this audiobook collection of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Most are not gothic by today's terms at all. Granted, some stories were interesting but the majority were dull. The narrator was very good, and he made the stories come alive. Some of the stories have good humor in them, so if you like mysteries or adventure tales I would recommend this.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I obviously know Doyle for his Sherlock stories, and was aware of some of his other pulp and gothic stories, but this collection, and in particular, the introductory essay, gave me a better appreciation for Doyle and his work.By our standards some of the ideas don't seem original and may seem silly, and Doyle's notions of race, colonialism, and sex, can be off putting, but he was a talented writer with lots to say.Hearing the stories in an audio format can make the stories more accessible and have certainly helped with my commutes.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'm not a fan of Victorian literature. Doyle's stories contain all the attitudes that I despise. Women are lovely but weak and prone to fainting. Blacks are savages, as are most other races. You can read a man's character easily by studying his face. Christianity is the true religion (this is a thought spoken by several characters, although Doyle did not consider himself a Christian, but a Spiritualist). That being said, Gary Furlong does an outstanding job in performing 30+ Doyle stories, with multiple character's voices and excellent accents. Doyle's stories provide a wide variety of supernatural or just scary themes. We have all sorts of mania, seances, mummies, vampires, and some pretty sadistic revenge. Almost all have a protagonist with medical training, which of course allows the author to use his expertise in this field. Each story takes about 30 minutes of listening time, so this would be a great companion for a Doyle fan who commutes by car.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great mysteries, excellent narration.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Early Review MP3 CD - I received this CD in the mail just after Halloween, and it's full of appropriately unsettling stories for the winter season.The sound quality of this collection is first rate. Any fan of Conan Doyle's work, or ghost stories, will enjoy this collection.