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Arthur Conan Doyle

Lifespan
1859 – 1930
Nationality
British
Active
1892 – 1913
Works held
7

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) gave the world Sherlock Holmes, but his imagination ranged far wider. The Lost World (1912), with its plateau of surviving dinosaurs and its blustering Professor Challenger, founded a whole genre of prehistoric adventure and directly inspired everything from King Kong to Jurassic Park. Challenger returned in The Poison Belt and other tales, making Doyle a significant early figure in scientific romance.

The works

  1. 1913
    Cover of Myrkkyvyöhyke Myrkkyvyöhyke Cover of The Poison Belt The Poison Belt
  2. 1912
    Cover of Kadonnut maailma Kadonnut maailma Cover of Nahkaratti Nahkaratti Cover of The Lost World The Lost World
  3. 1894
    Cover of The Parasite: A Story The Parasite: A Story
  4. 1892
    Cover of Le Horror Altissime Le Horror Altissime

Wrote across

1890s1910s

Recurring themes

Hard SFHorrorPost-ApocalypticLost WorldAdventurePsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Nelson S. BondRobert Moore WilliamsStephen MarloweBryce WaltonEdmond HamiltonPhilip K. DickRay BradburyRay Cummings

Contemporaries writing in the same era

H. G. WellsEdgar Rice BurroughsL. Frank BaumLuis SenarensLord DunsanyVictor AppletonWilliam MorrisAlgernon BlackwoodBram StokerJohn Kendrick Bangs

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