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The Blood-Stone Tragedy

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published May 2004
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A woman walking in the hills in Wales is kidnapped by a man who claims to be a Druid and who wants to sacrifice her.

Not speculative: the would-be Druid in this story is stated to have been insane, and the story is based on an actual case (see The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia).

First published anonymously in the Cassel's Saturday Journal of 16 february 1884.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 2004 Cover The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction Ash-Tree Press Collection 108
February 2012 Cover The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction Ash-Tree Press Collection |108
February 2012 Cover The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction Ash-Tree Press Collection |108