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Tales of Terror and Mystery By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Contents

Tales of Terror

The Horror of the Heights The Leather Funnel The New Catacomb The Case of Lady Sannox The Terror of

Blue John Gap The Brazilian Cat

Tales of Mystery

The Lost Special The Beetle-Hunter The Man with the Watches The Japanned Box The Black Doctor The

Jew's Breastplate

Tales of Terror

The Horror of the Heights

The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate

practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now

been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imaginative of plotters would

hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned and tragic facts which reinforce the

statement. Though the assertions contained in it are amazing and even monstrous, it is none the less forcing

itself upon the general intelligence that they are true, and that we must readjust our ideas to the new situation.

This world of ours appears to be separated by a slight and precarious margin of safety from a most singular

and unexpected danger. I will endeavour in this narrative, which reproduces the original document in its

necessarily somewhat fragmentary form, to lay before the reader the whole of the facts up to date, prefacing

my statement by saying that, if there be any who doubt the narrative of Joyce-Armstrong, there can be no

question at all as to the facts concerning Lieutenant Myrtle, R. N., and Mr. Hay Connor, who undoubtedly met

their end in the manner described.

The Joyce-Armstrong Fragment was found in the field which is called Lower Haycock, lying one mile to the

westward of the village of Withyham, upon the Kent and Sussex border. It was on the 15th September last that

an agricultural labourer, James Flynn, in the employment of Mathew Dodd, farmer, of the Chauntry Farm,

Withyham, perceived a briar pipe lying near the footpath which skirts the hedge in Lower Haycock. A few

paces farther on he picked up a pair of broken binocular glasses. Finally, among some nettles in the ditch, he

caught sight of a flat, canvas-backed book, which proved to be a note-book with detachable leaves, some of

which had come loose and were fluttering along the base of the hedge. These he collected, but some,

including the first, were never recovered, and leave a deplorable hiatus in this all-important statement. The

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