The Land of Mist (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—extrasensory powers
- Time of Work: The 1920’s
- Setting: London, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, Ghosts or apparitions, 1920’s, England or English people, London, Spiritualism
- Locales: London, England
The Plot
In this novel, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger, the hero of The Lost World (1912), becomes a Spiritualist, just as Doyle himself had. Professor Challenger is annoyed when his daughter, Enid, and her sweetheart, Edward Malone, become convinced that the tenets of Spiritualism are true. They believe that there is life after death and that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living. At one Spiritualist meeting, a medium informs Enid that she herself possesses mediumistic abilities. At a séance, another medium, Tom Linden, materializes the...
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