Tales of Unease

Synopsis

This book is selected and with an introduction by david stuart davies. In these twilight excursions, doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of egypt and the strange powers granted by the ring of thoth to the isolated ghostlands of the arctic in "the captain of the polestar"; we encounter a monstrous creature in "the terror of blue john cap" and the beings that live above our head in "the brazilian cat and the leather funnel"; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in "lot 249".