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Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 august 1785 – 8 december 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.<br />
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== In the Conan Doyle stories ==<br />
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* [[The Silver Hatchet]] (1883) : The narrator compared the Budapest murders with the Williams murders described by De Quincey.<br />
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* [[J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement]] (1884) : Joseph Habakuk Jephson suggested to Harton he may be collecting materials for a book which shall outvie De Quincey.<br />
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* [[Uncle Jeremy's Household]] (1887) : When he arrived in town, Hugh Lawrence reminded of the description of the opium-eating Malay whom De Quincey saw in the farmhouse in Scotland.<br />
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* [[Through the Magic Door]] (1906) : No man invents a style. It always derives back from some influence, or, as is more usual, it is a compromise between several influences. I cannot trace Poe's. And yet if Hazlitt and De Quincey had set forth to tell weird stories they might have developed something of the kind.<br />
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''In the Sherlock Holmes stories''<br />
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* [[The Man with the Twisted Lip]] (1891) : [[Isa Whitney]] started [[opium]] when he was at college, having read Thomas De Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations. ({{refcanon|TWIS|2}})<br />
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