Frightfulness Founded on Fiction
Frightfulness Founded on Fiction is an article published in The Bystander on 24 february 1915.
The article refers to Arthur Conan Doyle's short story : The Story of B 24 (1899)
Frightfulness Founded on Fiction
The Germans, I see, are acknowledging that the idea of submarining British merchant ships came to them from reading a story by Sir A. Conan Doyle in an American magazine, in which this particular form of frightfulness was forecast. Sir Arthur has naturally expressed his regret at having been of unintentional service to the enemy. The fact remains, however, that many of the horrors of the present war were forecast in British fiction, and the Germans have made it a matter of honour not to fall short in any way of the code of ruthlessness drawn up for them by our ever-obliging prophets of national disaster.
