NEW ON AMZON'S KINDLE: Conan Doyle & The Spirits: The Spiritualist Career of Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle is world famous as a
writer and as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but his life as a
psychic investigator has often been neglected. This biography
represents a wide cross-section of Conan Doyle's spiritualistic
writings. It ranges from the case histories of mediums to transcripts
of spirit messages received by the Doyle family. Starting with a look
at Conan Doyle's Celtic roots, Kelvin Jones charts his growing
interest in spiritualism from his Jesuit education as a boy to his
rather sceptical introduction to the phenomena at the end of the
nineteenth century. He goes on to illustrate how Conan Doyle's belief
in spiritualism was deepened by the works of leading psychic
researchers, such as F. W. H. Myers, and his joining of the Society
for Psychical Research. The book examines many of his own experiments
and research and discusses several of his spiritualist stories and
articles. This study provides the reader with a wealth of
information, biographical, chronological and bibliographical details,
and is the first serious attempt to recognize Conan Doyle's talents
as a psychic investigator, revealing him as a pioneer in the field of
psychic studies.
