Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon and Francisco Goya. A rationalist physiologist agrees to be hypnotised by a small, plain, crippled woman from Trinidad, as an experiment — and discovers that she can put her will inside his and that he cannot get it out. Conan Doyle created Holmes while waiting for patients in an empty practice, and later gave his life to spiritualism; this 1894 novella is where the two halves of him meet, and it is genuinely frightening. Four Sherlock Holmes cases complete the volume: The Dying Detective, The Bruce-Partington Plans, The Devil's Foot and The Cardboard Box. Fifty-eight plates of moonlight, dusk and evening atmosphere by painters including Edvard Munch and John Sell Cotman answer the novella's dark hypnotic pull with low light of their own.