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The Sussex Vampire

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher : Read Books Ltd

Page : 25 pages

File Size : 40,53 MB

Release : 2014-12-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1447499948

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In this spellbinding short story, a deadly vampire haunts Sussex, and only the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes can solve the case. When a concerned father seeks help from Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, he recounts the frightening events happening in his home. He claims his new wife is a bloodthirsty vampire who’s draining their newborn baby of blood and endangering his 15-year-old son’s life. Join Holmes and Watson as they visit the client’s family home in Sussex and unravel the truth behind the sinister case. First published in 1924, ‘The Sussex Vampire’ showcases Arthur Conan Doyle’s pioneering work in supernatural mysteries. This new edition, published by Fantasy and Horror Classics, features a specially commissioned introduction, making it a must-read for fans of the genre.



The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof

Page : 26 pages

File Size : 16,92 MB

Release : 2020-09-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8726586363

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Mr. Robert Ferguson thinks his wife might be a vampire. He’s caught her sucking their baby’s neck and since that discovery, she has locked herself in her room, only allowing their Peruvian maid to bring her food. Her behaviour had been strange before that and she had struck Ferguson’s son from an earlier marriage twice. The boy, fifteen, has been left handicapped by a childhood accident. Holmes is immediately convinced he has solved the case upon hearing the story but he follows Ferguson back home to clear the mystery. "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" is part of "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After his studies, he worked as a ship’s surgeon on various boats. During the Second Boer War, he was an army doctor in South Africa. When he came back to the United Kingdom, he opened his own practice and started writing crime books. He is best known for his thrilling stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He published four novels and more than 50 short-stories starring the detective and Dr Watson, and they play an important role in the history of crime fiction. Other than the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote around thirty more books, in genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, historical novels, but also poetry, plays, and non-fiction.



Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher : Graphic Universe ™

Page : 51 pages

File Size : 15,9 MB

Release : 2018-08-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1541540611

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A mother sucks the blood from her baby's neck! Could she be a vampire? Do vampires really exist? Robert Ferguson thinks so. In fact, he believes his wife is one! He calls upon Holmes and Watson to solve the case. Will they find an explanation for the wife's strange behavior? Or are they facing a real vampire?



Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher : Clipper Audio

Page : pages

File Size : 10,56 MB

Release : 2014-01-01

Category : Detective and mystery stories, English

ISBN : 9781471217616

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At the request of an old rugby friend of Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes finds himself on a hunt for a vampire - or rather, on a mission to prove that vampires are the stuff of Medieval legend, not a part of the modern world. Holmes soon faces a question that truly tests his superb detective abilities: Could a mother harm her own child?



The Sussex Vampire

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher :

Page : 58 pages

File Size : 38,14 MB

Release : 1979

Category : Miniature books

ISBN :

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Vampire Stories

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 13,18 MB

Release : 2009-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1628731451

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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.



The Vampire Book

Author : J Gordon Melton

Publisher : Visible Ink Press

Page : 945 pages

File Size : 18,66 MB

Release : 2010-09-01

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 1578593506

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The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.



Sherlock Holmes

Author : David Stuart Davies

Publisher : Wordsworth Editions

Page : 420 pages

File Size : 50,9 MB

Release : 2007-09-10

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781840220711

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Once more, the game's afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures specially commissioned for Wordsworth's Mystery & Supernatural series. The celebrated detective, along with his friend and biographer, Dr Watson, investigate a variety of baffling mysteries that will delight fans of the famous sleuth.



The Living Dead

Author : James B. Twitchell

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 35,9 MB

Release : 1981

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780822307891

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In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.