"Horror of the Heights." Topic

This short tale by Arthur Conan Doyle is really Edwardian as it occurs after Her Majesty's death during the dawn of flight. It uses the device of a recovered journal (grandpa of found footage?) It features a rare appearance in science fiction of non-E.T. objects.
Aerial organisms could threaten aeronefs.

I assume that this is it.

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Yes! The plane used and title image are a bit off. The plane in the story is a monoplane.

Possible miniatures might be found among small jellyfish toys that might be mounted on flight stands to menace 1/144th aircraft.

Nice! Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote a lot if historical action-adventure fiction, like the Tragedy of the Korosko (tourism steamboat on the Nile hijacked y Jihadis during a Madi uprising set in 1895), and his most excellent, impeccably researched "White Company" series set during the 100 Years War.

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@rvandusen "It features a rare appearance in science fiction of non-E.T. objects. "

Not least, proto-dino-drama-`The Lost World'- ooh, _and_ 'The Terror of Blue John Gap'!

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Actually, Wessex Games' Aeronef's expansion, The Captain's Handbook, ends with a scenario starting with a quote from 'Horror of the Heights', and the suggestion of a White Line airship attacked enroute to Miami as passing Bermuda.

I will point out this was the example of a section entitled Aerofauna, suggesting players invent even more.

Doug

PS The device of finding lost documents, diaries, journals, correspondence goes way back, though a lot of work goes into this one, i.e. missing pages, bloodstains, change in writing.

Verisimilitude of Verisimilitude! ;->=

I have used toy jellyfish as aerofauna before. Mounted on flying stands they can be quite effective.