On Sept. 7, 1919, the 60-year-old Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, doctor, lecturer, seafarer, sportsman, indefatigable social campaigner—and globally renowned author of the Sherlock Holmes tales—shared the ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1923 U.S. tour was devoted entirely to promoting spiritualism and communication with the dead. Cincinnatians sold out the Emery Theatre to hear the famous author. “Yes, it was ...

It is somewhat paradoxical that Sherlock Holmes was a literary creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, says D. Alan Bensley, an associate professor of psychology at Frostburg State University, in an essay ...

THE recent publication of two large volumes entitled “The History of Spiritualism” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is perhaps a suitable occasion on which men of science may once again turn their thoughts ...

A 1929 Fox newsreel interview with the author and spiritualist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He speaks about his greatest literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, and his work in spiritualism. Release year ...

Today, nearly seventy years after his death, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is universally associated with his most popular literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. In fact, the hyper-rational detective is such an ...

Walking through Edinburgh’s West End, early one winter morning, I spied a familiar face. The unmistakable features of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle looked down upon me from an impressive Victorian town house ...

Nowhere in the world is Spiritualism so respectable as in England. There it rates as a real religion, has attracted some great names (Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Although England’s ...

In the spring of 1923, the world that called itself “modern” was haunted by ghosts, curses and rising extremism. This episode follows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s surprising turn to spiritualism after the ...