Cuentos góticos completos (1880-1922)

Although it was undoubtedly Sherlock Holmes who gave him his fame and his place in the history of literature, Arthur Conan Doyle was somewhat annoyed by such an absolute identification with the detective story: in fact, he always wanted to be remembered as historical novelist. But it was the Gothic genre that perhaps most widely occupied his imagination. Darryl Jones has collected in this volume his Complete Gothic Tales, thirty-four pieces that, from 1880 to 1922, reveal the original contribution to that genre that ended up bringing to light some of the unresolved obsessions and tensions of Victorian culture: the possibility that the familiar becomes monstrous, the fear of a colonial revenge that will destroy the British Empire, the existence of spirits beyond death that communicate with the living, the doubt -in short- that scientific and rational on which society sits can explain everything. Or perhaps the sinister and the infamous are part of the same nature. Prudently, almost certain that they will not be believed, many of the narrators of these tales bear their testimony of mysterious disappearances, evil hypnotic influences, irresistible calls to suicide and death, grotesque animals, raging unicorns, returning mummies. to life, objects that preserve gruesome scenes from the past that certain sensitive spirits can reconstruct... An extraordinary collection of characters and plots from the hand of one of the most imaginative writers in British literature.