Resultados para "Arthur Conan Doyle" en Gótico

War, wenn jemand seit 4000 Jahren lebt – aus Liebe? In Die Mumie von Arthur Conan Doyle erzählt Benjamin Werner die tragisch-schöne Geschichte des ägyptischen Priesters Sosra, der das Geheimnis des ewigen Lebens entdeckt – und an der Zeit selbst zerbricht. Zwischen Pyramiden, Pest und Pariser Museen entfaltet sich eine unheimliche und zutiefst menschliche Erzählung über Liebe, Fluch und die Grenzen der Wissenschaft.

"El gato del Brasil" de Arthur Conan Doyle trata sobre un joven aristócrata inglés que se encuentra al borde de la ruina decide visitar a su primo millonario que acaba de regresar de Brasil. El joven descubre que, entre otras curiosas aficiones, su pariente tiene un inmenso e intrincado jardín tropical lleno de especies exóticas -con raras plantas, aves y reptiles- donde destaca un enorme e inquietante animal enjaulado: el gato de Brasil, cuyo alimento preferido es la carne humana.

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 30 of Conan Doyle's best Gothic tales

"My murder will take place in a darkened séance room—shot twice in the chest.” The words are a premonition related to Arthur Conan Doyle when he answers a summons for help from a mysterious woman who identifies herself only as “a Spiritualist Medium of some renown.”