The Edinburgh Conan Doyle Project

Dr Richard Fallon, editor of the Edinburgh edition of The Lost World, joins the Terrible Lizards podcast to talk Conan Doyle, dinosaurs, and the enduring appeal of Professor Challenger’s most famous adventure.:

https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls12e02-1

Here’s the episode description:

We have talked plenty about dinosaurs in pop culture, including in movies, but this is hardly a modern phenomenon. Dinosaurs were getting into the mainstream almost as soon as they appeared on the scientific scene and have a rich history in novels, and short stories. This week we are joined by Richard Fallon, a historian specialising in science in literature and with a particular interest in prehistoric animals in this context. Richard and Dave recently wrote a book chapter on the odds parallels between Jurassic Park and Michael Crichton and the Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. Having won a prize for this (“Doylean Honors” from the ACD Society!) we though it a great time to sit down with Richard and talk about dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles in fiction and how this has changed over time.

In this interview from 2024, Roger Luckhurst talks about his edition of Round the Red Lamp (1894) for Edinburgh University Press, and plenty of Gothic too.

https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2024/06/52-round-red-lamp-1894-with-roger.html

The latest volume in the Edinburgh Conan Doyle edition is now available for pre-order with the 30% discount code NEW30 — many congratulations to Douglas Kerr for his second book in the series as editor! Please ask your libraries to order a copy. Further info available here:

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-tragedy-of-the-korosko-and-the-fires-of-fate.html

Memories and Adventures, with Douglas Kerr

This is the first of a new series of posts highlighting talks, interviews, and podcasts featuring editors of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing a selection of recordings from the past few years, offering insight into the research and editorial work behind the Edition. We begin with our General Editor, Douglas Kerr, discussing Memories and Adventures on the always-excellent Doings of Doyle podcast:

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We were shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the death on 11 June of our friend and colleague Simon James. He was a member of the Edinburgh Conan Doyle Edition team, and many of us also knew him from other contexts. Simon was a great scholar and critic, and a genial, very funny and empathetic friend. He was wonderfully curious about everything and everybody, and must have been a fabulous teacher.

Messages from colleagues speak of ‘such a loss of a great scholar and truly wonderful, generous and talented man’, ‘a warm, kind, generous person’, ‘a wonderful scholar and a valued colleague’, ‘a vibrant and generous personality’, ‘very good at making one feel supported in one’s endeavours’, ‘the model of a true scholar and gent’; and on and on.

It is a great loss and we send our condolences to Kate and his family.

Douglas Kerr