Arthur Conan Doyle: Classic Author Admired by REH

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While not a widely known fact today, ACD was an accomplished architect. The last building standing that he had a hand in was scheduled for demolition. It has now been saved:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5180321/Sir-Arthur-Conan-Doyles-surviving-building-saved.html

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Is today Holmes' birthday?



cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/the-curious-case-of-a-birthday-for-sherlock/

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Michael Chabon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of several novels, including the swashbuckler, Gentlemen of the Road. Here's Chabon's list of top adventure tales:


CAPTAIN BLOOD, Rafael Sabatini

The Kull Stories, Robert E. Howard

The Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories, Fritz Leiber

AGAINST THE DAY, Thomas Pynchon

The Brigadier Gerard stories, Arthur Conan Doyle


Doyle has exerted influence far beyond Sherlock Holmes...

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Doyle would be 159 today. Props.


www.biography.com/people/arthur-conan-doyle-9278600

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Great art by Joseph Clement Coll for The Lost World:


Professor Challenger: Badass



Dinos!




All of JCC's illos for TLW can be found here:


comicsbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/09/joseph-clement-coll-1881-1921-arthur.html

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Oct 24, 2017 9:40:10 GMT -5 emerald said:

Oct 23, 2017 23:56:27 GMT -5 deuce said:

Great collections of ACD's non-Sherlockian tales from Alma Classics and Leonaur:


www.blackgate.com/2017/10/21/ghosts-strange-science-and-trains-that-vanish-the-tales-of-arthur-conan-doyle/ 

Doyle's macabre stories are surprisingly strong even by modern standards.  Check a couple out for Halloween!

Michael Dirda's blurb on the cover of Tales of Long Ago is mighty, and True.
Gotta appreciate Dirda, a Pulitzer-winner who'll stand up and write fiery endorsements of REH and CAS, among many others.    

Just found out Dirda wrote an entire book on Doyle. Looks good. Here's an excerpt:


books.google.com/books?id=52PN3PwnvuIC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=bakers+streets+gaslight+and+hansom&source=bl&ots=-OgVMm7Cmz&sig=X50OLgp8FcyAPzeMgB9Gupx5ygU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAmPyMqKfeAhUSOawKHdzvAZIQ6AEwCnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=bakers%20streets%20gaslight%20and%20hansom&f=false

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An excellent overview of Doyle's horror tales:


www.oldstyletales.com/single-post/2018/02/25/The-Adventurous-Visionary-Horror-Stories-of-Sir-Arthur-Conan-Doyle-Oldstyle-Tales-Macabre-Masters

[paulmc]

I've been working my way through the original Sherlock Holmes stories via audio (Audible). The first few I listened to various narrators, but I have landed on the Derek Jacobi narrations and I will stay with those for the rest. They are stellar.

[Grim Wanderer]

Dec 18, 2018 9:09:08 GMT -5 paulmc said:

I've been working my way through the original Sherlock Holmes stories via audio (Audible). The first few I listened various narrators, but I have landed on the Derek Jacobi narrations and I will stay with those for the rest. They are stellar.

Jacobi is a great actor and has a wonderful voice suited to narration.

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What Holmes story should you read first?


www.blackgate.com/2015/04/06/the-public-life-of-sherlock-holmes-what-story-should-you-read-first/