The Land of Mist

The Land of Mist

Hutchinson & Co
Publication date	1926
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	294
Preceded by	The Poison Belt
Followed by	"When the World Screamed"

The Land of Mist is a novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1926.

Although this is a

, who has died of old age around this time, is referred to by the mediums (much to the anger of Professor Challenger).

Plot

Reporter Ned Malone (who was one of the main characters in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World) returns in this novel, in which he and Professor Challenger's daughter Enid are assigned to cover the current spiritualist phenomenon. They discover there really is something to a seance, and they try to convince Challenger to get interested in their investigations.

Spiritualism

Heavily influenced by Doyle's growing belief in

, the book focuses on Edward Malone's at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism.

There is a suggestion in chapter two that the deaths of "ten million young men" in World War I was punishment by the "Central Intelligence" (that is, God) for humanity's laughing at the evidence for life after death.

See also

• 1926 in science fiction

External links

• Media related to The Land of Mist at Wikimedia Commons
• The full text of The Land of Mist at Wikisource

• The Land of Mist at Project Gutenberg
• The Land of Mist at Project Gutenberg Australia

The Land of Mist public domain audiobook at LibriVox