Round the Fire Stories is a volume collecting 17 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1908. As Conan Doyle wrote in his preface, this volume include stories concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible. Murder, madness, ghosts, unsolved crimes, diabolical traps, and inexplicable disappearances abound in these exciting accounts narrated by doctors, lawyers, genetlemen, teachers, burglars, dilettantes, and convicted criminals.