Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales

While Conan Doyle is rightly acknowledged as a fine writer of detective stories, he was also an accomplished teller of tales featuring the weird, the supernatural, and the horrific. It was an area in which, as a writer, he showed an early interest: the first story he is known to have sent for publication, 'The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe', was written when the author was only eighteen. The Captain of the 'Pole-Star', the most complete volume of ACD's weird fiction ever published, showcases this aspect of Conan Doyle's writing through thirty-seven stories of the mysterious and the macabre. Among the tales collected here are stories of ghosts and mummies, psychic vampires and psychological terror, and horrors of the earth and sky—all told in the inimitable style of one of the world's greatest storytellers.