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The first collection of vampire stories from the creator of Sherlock Holmes!
Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.
As the bestselling Twilight series has dominated bookstores, it's the perfect time to offer the first-ever compilation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's vampire tales. Get ready to sink your teeth into this heart-stopping anthology. Each of these twelve short stories has been pulled from obscurity and hand selected for this collection. Conan Doyle's famous friendship with vampire king Bram Stoker is thought to have influenced these many blood-sucking tales, including "The Captain of the Pole Star," about a medical student on an arctic voyage haunted by a heat-draining Eskimo vampire and "The Three Gables," in which vampirism is cunningly used as a metaphor for capitalism.
Featuring an introduction by world-renowned vampire expert, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, this is a must-have anthology for all vampire lovers, and for any Arthur Conan Doyle enthusiast.
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Matthew Pierce
reviewed Vampire Stories on May 21, 2016
Vampire Stories
Let's start with the "truth in advertising" problem: there are no actual vampires in the usual sense in any of these stories. Which I could live with under other circumstances. Except that this was not the reading experience I signed on for. Admittedly, had it been called "Some stories in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has characters use the word 'vampire' in a sentence. And a mediocre pastiche story by some other guy," I might not have picked it up. But so are the contents thereof more accurately described.
The editors also made the inexplicable choice to include Holmes/Watson story "The Adventure of the Three Gables." As far as I can tell, there were two significant phases in Arthur Conan Doyle's writing life: an earlier phase in which he viewed people who weren't Anglo-Saxon Victorian gentlemen as people (not equals, but certainly as multidimensional human beings) and a time when he did not. This story is very definitely from the latter phase. Give it a miss if you'd like to not regard the man as an egregious racist and try "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" instead (the "face" is a mask and the story is, for its time and author, pretty progressive).
Now to go find a mental palate cleanser.
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