12 short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. English original edition. Tales of Terror and Mystery is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1922. The collection is divided in two parts: Tales of Terror with horror stories, and Tales of Mystery with stories with strange schemes. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh and took a degree in medicine at Edinburgh University before becoming a doctor in Southsea. He began writing detective stories to supplement his income and A Study in Scarlet (1887) introduced his finest creation, the hawk-eyed detective, Sherlock Holmes.