Scary Tales of Unease

by Arthur Conan Doyle

World's popular unabridged classics, set in easy to read type, handsomely printed on quality paper & elegantly bound in a deluxe leather look. This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. Scary Tales of Unease is another classic from Arthur Conan Doyle, the most famous author of Sherlock Holmes. These tales are decidedly at par with Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories; they are his tales of the unusual and the supernatural. His writing output was similarly prodigious and novels, short stories, articles, essays, reviews, poetry, plays, and in genres like history, detective, horror, melodrama, science fiction. What unites them all is the easy confidence of his style.

Leather Bound

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[Srijith Jagdish · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this compilation of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle...The stories are short and the whole book can be completed in 2-3 sittings...

The thrill or suspense is not what I wud call as the key highlight...you probably wud guess them midway into each story...However, what I really enjoyed was that despite being a short story, the author successfully manages to paint the scenes in the story really well...Often I felt that I was part of the story witnessing as it unfolded...

Most of the stories have not more than 2-3 central characters and the whole story takes place in a short span...I really felt that some of these can be well adapted into stage plays where the entire story is enacted in not more that 2-3 locations...

Would highly recommend for a lazy Sunday read or during travel (I picked mine up just before getting on a flight)

Regards,

Sri

[Sbijapure · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are fifteen short stories in all in this leather-bound book (ISBN 9788182523142) with good quality paper, printing, and binding.
Very simple stories. Might have been new and interesting when they were written. Now the thriller-story telling has come a long way.
The short story named "The Horror of the Heights" shows the limitations of our knowledge of the world during 1913.

[Ayanle Abfi · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Anoop Chatterjee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had travelled to Kolkata (Calcutta,still to some) this season. It had just rained for a couple of days. This gave a serene cool climate which though is comfortable is damp. Towards the evening I was already two chapters into the book. This one belonged to the darker side of human thought. The climate cool, humid and quiet complemented the theme of unease of this book. And by this time that i have finished the book it feels great to have spent time in listening to great narratives of Sir Doyle.
The book is a collection of short stories of "unease". They are ordered in a fashion of increasing intensity and horror. Towards the end the tone is more of thrill and increased anticipation which the author has very skillfully woven. The stories range from a simple fright sight to murderous mummies to unknown creatures to even a film scene! The cases have a queer inquisitive about them which i was never able to overcome. Given the period of their original writing, the imaginations are in a word 'awesome'! Quite trully i was begging for some healthy eerie horror and i got my treat.
Another obvious greatness of this classic is the dramatic language in which the stories are presented. It is a pure treat to read.
So if you want the subtle chills go for this masterpiece!