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Containing twenty-nine stories of the weird and uncanny, all originally published in the Strand, this collection is an enthralling mix of horror and the supernatural, unnatural disasters, madness, and revenge. We read of a germ that turned the world blind in Edgar Wallace's The Black Grippe. In A Sense of the Future, the world supply of oil gives out, cars become obsolete, and after three months we have returned to the days of horse-drawn carriages. In other tales, a camera takes pictures of the future, and a 1971 newspaper is pushed through a mail slot forty years earlier. With spine-tingling stories from the likes of Sapper, Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and a comic fantasy by H.G. Wells, as well as two tales from the children's writer E. Nesbit, Strange Tales from the Strand provides a rich collection for all lovers of the macabre.
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Joshua Humphrey
reviewed Strange tales from the Strand on August 01, 2007
Strange tales from the Strand
The Strand, of course, was one of the most popular magazines of Victorian and Edwardian times, up until around the 1950's. As Jack Adrian points out in his introduction, The Strand was noted for two things: dectective fiction and 'strange tales', which included ghost stories, stories of darkness and the bizarre or inexplicable. Adrian has culled twenty-nine classic stories of weird fiction from this publication. Of course, there are several by Arthur Conan Doyle (who published his Sherlock Holmes stories originally in The Strand), but many other popular writers as well, such as Edgar Wallace (once the most successful writer on the planet), H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, Grant Allan (a personal favorite), "Sapper", Hugh Walpole, and Edith Nesbit. Most of the tales date from the 1980's-1920's, but there are a few more recent ones dating from the 1930's-50's as well.
One feature that I especially appreciated was the arrangement of the book into thematic sections such as "Revenants," "Murder and Madness," "Unnatural Disasters," and so on. There's a short biographical/bibliographical section on each of the authors featured in the various sections which is nice as some of the authors are not that well known today.
There's a companion volume to this one, also edited by Adrian, called Detective Stories from the Strand.
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