Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light: 1887–1920

About this book

Matt Wingett traces Arthur Conan Doyle’s developing interest in psychic questions through his contributions to the spiritualist journal Light between 1887 and 1920. Séances, telepathy, hypnosis and poltergeist reports appear within the wider story of Doyle’s changing convictions. The book uses these articles and letters to examine how the creator of Sherlock Holmes became an increasingly public advocate for spiritualism.