Del i serien Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle

Land of Mist and Other Spiritualist Writings

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This book reunites Arthur Conan Doyle’s remarkable 1926 psychic novel The Land of Mist, with the erotically charged, religiously provocative and previously unpublished chapter, ‘The Darker Side’, after over a century of separation. The book includes an introduction, a textual essay, critical apparatus, explanatory notes and thirty-one illustrations by F.E. Hiley from the work’s original serialisation in the Strand. It represents Conan Doyle’s most sustained and earnest fictional exploration of the spiritualist movement to which he dedicated the last years of his life. Here the author repurposes the famous protagonist of his popular Professor Challenger series for spiritualist ends, hoping that the bellicose scientist’s dramatic conversion to afterlife belief would inspire a similar effect among its readers.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle
Antal sidor432
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399500487

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Christine Ferguson is Professor in English Studies in the Division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is author of Open Secrets: The Popular Fiction of Britain’s Occult Revival (2025), Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (2006). Her previous editions include, with Andrew Radford, The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (2018), and, as solo editor, a volume on Spiritualism, Health, Race, and Human Variation for Routledge’s Spiritualism 1840-1930 facsimile edition series (2014).

General Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsDedicationChronology of the Life of Arthur Conan DoyleThe Land of Mist: IntroductionThe Land of MistChapter I. In Which Our Special Commissioners Make a StartChapter 2. Which Describes an Evening in Strange CompanyChapter 3. In Which Professor Challenger Gives His OpinionChapter 4. Which Describes Some Strange Doings in HammersmithChapter 5. Where Our Commissioners Have a Remarkable ExperienceChapter 6. In Which the Reader is Shown the Habits of a Notorious CriminalChapter 7. In Which the Notorious Criminal Gets What the British Law Considers to be his DesertsChapter 8. In Which Three Investigators Come Across a Dark SoulChapter 9. Which Introduces Some Very Physical PhenomenaChapter 10. De ProfundisChapter 11. Where Silas Linden Comes Into His OwnChapter 12. There are Heights and There are DepthsChapter 13. In Which Professor Challenger Goes Forth to BattleChapter 14. In Which Professor Challenger Meets a Strange ColleagueChapter 15. In Which Traps are Laid for a Great QuarryChapter 16. In Which Challenger Has the Experience of his LifetimeChapter 17. Where the Mists Clear AwayLand of Mist NotesAn Essay on the TextOther Spiritualist Writings: AppendicesI. ‘A New Revelation: Spiritualism and Religion’ (1916)II. ‘The Vital Message: A Plea for the Reform of Christianity’ (1917)III. ‘Fairies Photographed: An Epoch-Making Event’ (1920)IV. ‘The Darker Side’ (c. 1924–25)V. Letter from Elsie Wright to Geoffrey Crawley (1983)ApparatusA Note on IllustrationsExplanatory Notes