Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light, 1887 - 1920, Paperback edition

Matt Wingett, Contributions by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Foreword by Michael Gunton, Preface by Leslie Price

ISBN 10: 0957241356 / ISBN 13: 9780957241350

Published by Life Is Amazing, PORTSMOUTH, 2016

About this Item

"Why did the man who created Sherlock Holmes believe in ghosts?" From early in his medical career, Arthur Conan Doyle was fascinated by the paranormal. As a young doctor in Southsea, he investigated séances, telepathy and hypnosis and in 1887, the year of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, he became convinced of spirit communication. Even as Holmes's fame grew, Conan Doyle investigated poltergeists, automatic writing and spirit photography. Then, in 1916, as the Great War's death toll mounted, he announced to an astonished world his belief in Spiritualism, all the while, continuing to produce stories starring his ultra-rational consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. In Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light: - Trace Conan Doyle's thinking as he grapples with paranormal phenomena and reaches the extraordinary conclusion that they are real. Read his own account of speaking with his dead son, Kingsley, and making physical contact with his manifested spirit. - Discover why Conan Doyle was accused of "necromancy" by Press and Church. - Find out how H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw and others were drawn into the debate. - Follow Conan Doyle's journey to becoming an international missionary and leader of a world movement. The first in a three-part series tracing his belief in Spiritualism, Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light is a detailed, entertaining true history. Includes newspaper reports, biographies of key figures, glossary, index, bibliography - and every article and letter he wrote for the Spiritualist magazine Light between 1887 and 1920, many of which have never been published in book form.

Seller Inventory # 000548

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light, 1887 - 1920, Paperback edition
• Publisher: Life Is Amazing, PORTSMOUTH
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0957241356
• ISBN 13: 9780957241350
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science / Technology Related
  • Religion / Spirituality

About this title

Synopsis

"Why did the man who created Sherlock Holmes believe in ghosts?”

From early in his medical career, Arthur Conan Doyle was fascinated by the paranormal. As a young doctor in Southsea, he investigated séances, telepathy and hypnosis and in 1887, the year of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, he became convinced of spirit communication.

Even as Holmes’s fame grew, Conan Doyle investigated poltergeists, automatic writing and spirit photography. Then, in 1916, as the Great War’s death toll mounted, he announced to an astonished world his belief in Spiritualism, all the while, continuing to  produce stories starring his ultra-rational consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.

In Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light:

- Trace Conan Doyle’s thinking as he grapples with paranormal phenomena and reaches the extraordinary conclusion that they are real.

- Read his own account of speaking with his dead son, Kingsley, and making physical contact with his manifested spirit.
Discover why Conan Doyle was accused of “necromancy” by Press and Church.

- Find out how H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw and others were drawn into the debate.

- Follow Conan Doyle’s journey to becoming an international missionary and leader of a world movement.

The first in a three-part series tracing his belief in Spiritualism, Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light is a detailed, entertaining true history. The book includes newspaper reports, biographies of key figures, glossary, an index, bibliographies - and every article and letter he wrote for the Spiritualist magazine "Light" between 1887 and 1920, many of which have never been published in book form.