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The Surgeon of Gaster Fell

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published December 1890
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

James Upperton moves to a cottage in Yorkshire. One of his neighbors, nicknamed "The Surgeon of Gaster Fell," makes him uneasy. Then he sees the surgeon beating and kidnapping an old man.

Not really speculative, although it is a story of insanity (the surgeon is a madman who his family have refused to commit to an asylum). First serialized in Chambers's Journal, December 1890.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1890 Chambers's Journal, December 6, 1890 W. & R. Chambers MAGAZINE 770
December 1890 Chambers's Journal, December 13, 1890 W. & R. Chambers MAGAZINE 787
December 1890 Chambers's Journal, December 20, 1890 W. & R. Chambers MAGAZINE 802
December 1890 Chambers's Journal, December 27, 1890 W. & R. Chambers MAGAZINE 819
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