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Selecting a Ghost Quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Five Conan Doyle Quotes Having Absolutely Nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One of my favorite authors, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, died on this day  in 1930.   He was 71 years old. Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes.  However he wrote many other novels and short stories.

4 Selecting a Ghost Quotes Found!

It was a very tall man, if, indeed, it might be called a man, for the gaunt bones were protruding through the corroding flesh, and the features were of a leaden hue. A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deep set in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals. ~ Selecting a Ghost by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It said: "I am the invisible nonentity. I have affinities and am subtle. I am electric, magnetic, and spiritualistic. I am the great ethereal sigh-heaver. I kill dogs. Mortal, wilt thou choose me?" ~ Selecting a Ghost by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. ~ Selecting a Ghost by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor. ~ Selecting a Ghost by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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