Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light 1887-1920 (Conan Doyle and the Paranormal)

Available post-free in the UK from the publishers website www.lifeisamazing.co.uk.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 Holmess fame grew Conan Doyle investigated poltergeists automatic writing and spirit photography. Then in 1916 as the Great Wars death toll mounted he announced to an astonished 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 Doyles 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 Doyles 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.