![]() ![]() ![]() Rubbish Watson, rubbish! What have we to do with walking corpses who can only be held in their grave by stakes driven through their hearts? It’s pure lunacy!īut he takes on the case for two reasons – one, he’s interested in the house in Essex belonging to Mr Ferguson where his wife is suspected of being a vampire, and two, Ferguson had known Watson when they played rugby together for Blackheath. The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire – this was first published in the January 1924 issues of The Strand Magazine in London and Hearst’s International Magazine in New York.Īs Sherlock Holmes says when he first heard about a case concerning vampires, ‘we seem to have been switched on to a Grimm’s fairy tale.‘ He tells Watson they cannot take it seriously: The narrator in these three stories is Dr Watson. They do indeed, provide both a distraction and a stimulating change of thought. ![]() In this post I’m only writing about three of them for The 1924 Club stories that were first published in 1924 (for more details about The I924 Club click on this link). That distraction from the worries of life and stimulating change of thought that can only be found in the fairy kingdom of romance. In the Preface Conan Doyle wrote that he hoped his Sherlock Holmes stories had provided The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains twelve short stories first published between 19. ![]()
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