The Land of Mist

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Publisher: Booklassic
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9789635240708
• Subtopic: Science Fiction
• Index: Literature

Heavily influenced by Doyle's growing belief in Spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War I, the book focuses on Edward Malone's at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism.

Table of contents

• Title
• Chapter 1 - In Which Our Special Commissioners Make a Start
• Chapter 2 - Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company
• Chapter 3 - In Which Professor Challenger Gives His Opinion
• Chapter 4 - Which Describes Some Strange Doings in Hammersmith
• Chapter 5 - Where Our Commissioners Have a Remarkable Experience
• Chapter 6 - In Which the Reader is Shown the Habits of a Notorious Criminal
• Chapter 7 - In Which the Notorious Criminal Gets What the British Law Considers to be His Deserts
• Chapter 8 - In Which Three Investigators Come Across a Dark Soul
• Chapter 9 - Which Introduces Some Very Physical Phenomena
• Chapter 10 - De Profundis
• Chapter 11 - Where Silas Linden Comes into His Own
• Chapter 12 - There are Heights and There are Depths
• Chapter 13 - In Which Professor Challenger Goes Forth to Battle
• Chapter 14 - In Which Challenger Meets a Strange Colleague
• Chapter 15 - In Which Traps are Laid for a Great Quarry
• Chapter 16 - In Which Challenger Has the Experience of His Life
• Chapter 17 - Where the Mists Clear Away
• Note on Chapter 2. Clairvoyance in spiritualist churches
• Note on Chapter 9. Earthbound spirits
• Note on Chapter 10. Rescue circles
• Note on Chapter 12. Dr Maupus's experiments