Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Arthur Conan Doyle

Conan Doyle is well-known for believing in the supernatural (including the Cottingley fairies hoax), so I was curious about what his supernatural short stories would be like. For the most part, they are fairly standard stories about ghosts and mediums, with nothing very remarkable, but some of them are unexpectedly funny. The story I liked best in this collection was 'Cyprian Overbeck Wells', a proto-postmodern story in which an unsuccessful author dreams that all the famous authors of past and then-present have assembled to help him make up a story, and start telling it in a round-robin, winding up having a fight over it. 'The Great Keinplatz Experiment' was also pretty funny, with a professor and his student accidentally exchanging bodies during a hypnotic experiment. The most famous story in this collection is the wonderful 'Lot No. 249', which is one of the first Egyptian-mummy-returning-from-the-afterlife stories, and 'The Ring of Thoth' is in a similar vein (and oddly similar to the plot of the super-kitch 1999 movie The Mummy). I was sort of bored with all the other stories, probably because I've just read way too many Victorian ghost stories, and they're all becoming a bit of a blur to me.