First published in Harper’s Weekly November 10, 1894 this novella combines the two poles of Doyle’s personality – the skeptic and the dupe. Playing out like a combination of Guy de Maupassant’s The Horla and The Manchurian Candidate. The protagonist, Austin Gilroy, a professor of physiology, meets a woman at a party who can perform frightening feats of mesmerism.
Variously described as being a tale of a “psychic vampire” other editors and anthologists have classified it as “weird fiction” or “horror”
The Parasite
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Read by Delmar H Dolbier
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Published: 2012
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The Parasite
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Read by Carl Vonnoh, III
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Published: 2006
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