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Readers who enjoy ghost stories, clever puzzles and tales told by firelight will love this book, as will fans of Sherlock Holmes curious about the author's other side.
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Why would a pilot carry a shotgun to forty thousand feet? In The Horror of the Heights, the first tale in this book, an aviator named Joyce-Armstrong believes the upper air holds jungles, and that the things living there are worse than tigers. His bloodstained notebook is found in a field. Nobody can say what became of him.
Tales of Terror and Mystery gathers twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the Scottish doctor who created Sherlock Holmes. Many are told as diaries, confessions or letters. You get a haunted funnel, a hidden catacomb, a vanished train and a huge black cat, all built from exact times, exact places and a calm witness.
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- 1A pilot hunts for jungles in the skyFree
- 2An old object can carry a terrible memory
- 3A calm friend can hide a cold plan
- 4A bold man ignores every warning sign
- 5A sick man's diary records a hidden monster
- 6A warm host can be the real danger
- 7A train vanishes on an open line
- 8An odd job hides an odd purpose
- 9Public puzzles invite wild theories
- 10Quiet secrets drive the gentler tales
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A pilot hunts for jungles in the sky
The Horror of the Heights is built like a case file. A narrator explains that a notebook was found in a field, beside a briar pipe and a pair of broken binoculars. Every detail is arranged to make you believe a real man wrote it.
The writer is Joyce-Armstrong, a wealthy inventor and one of the boldest pilots in England. Aviators keep dying in odd ways. Hay Connor dies in his seat after saying a single word, monstrous. Joyce-Armstrong decides the official explanations are too thin to be true.
So he prepares like a hunter, with oxygen, thick clothing, a new monoplane and a shotgun loaded with buckshot. The climb is told like a flight log, with heights and times. High above the clouds he sees giant bell-shaped creatures, delicate as glass, and thin gray air snakes. All of it is beautiful and harmless, which makes the dread that follows feel earned.
Doyle makes the impossible frightening by making the flying believable.
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What is Tales of Terror and Mystery about?
It is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. They include a pilot hunting creatures in the upper air, a haunted funnel, a catacomb in Rome, a vanished train, and a great black cat.
Is Tales of Terror and Mystery a Sherlock Holmes book?
No. Sherlock Holmes does not appear in these stories. Doyle uses the same careful detail and clear reasoning, but he turns them toward ghost stories, monsters, crimes and strange confessions.
Is the book easy to read in short sittings?
Yes, in the sense that each story stands alone and can be enjoyed in a single sitting. The language is plain, the narrators speak directly, and many tales use letters, diaries or telegrams to move quickly.
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Doyle, Arthur Conan. Tales of Terror and Mystery. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-terror-and-mystery.
Doyle, A. C. (2026). Tales of terror and mystery. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-terror-and-mystery (Original work published 1922)
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Tales of Terror and Mystery. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-of-terror-and-mystery.
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