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What happens when a scientist who scorns spirits must face their claims inside his own home?
In 1920s England, Professor George Edward Challenger is older, widowed, and no less fierce. His old companion Edward Malone now investigates séances as a newspaper reporter, bringing a sceptic’s eye to claims of contact with the dead. For Challenger, talk of spirits challenges everything he trusts about science and proof.
But the argument reaches beyond the séance room. Challenger’s daughter Enid takes spiritualism seriously, while the calm, well-read Algernon Mailey answers the professor’s anger with patient argument. In The Land of Mist, Arthur Conan Doyle brings grief, family loyalty, and stubborn conviction into a novel that makes a believer’s case without leaving its quarrels behind.
What you’ll discover
- A formidable sceptic Meet Challenger at his fiercest, defending the laboratory against claims he treats with scorn.
- Inside the séance room Follow Malone among mediums and doubters, where reports of spirits invite questions about evidence.
- A daughter stands firm Watch Enid take spiritualist claims seriously despite her father’s anger and uncompromising views.
- Grief meets the unknown Explore how loss and the search for proof shape a deeply personal dispute.
- Argument with comic force Enjoy brisk storytelling that gives drawing-room quarrels both serious purpose and comic energy.
Who will love it
For readers who enjoy Doyle beyond Sherlock Holmes, Edwardian and 1920s settings, and stories about the spiritualist movement. Séances, quarrels in drawing rooms, and debates over evidence, grief and belief offer an adventure of ideas.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Challenger returns older, louder, and alone
- Malone is sent to investigate the spirits
- A believer steps in to answer the professor
- Enid and Malone carry the quarrel into the family
- What the book says about proof, grief, and fraud
- A novel of argument told with a showman's hand
Who’s who
- Professor George Edward ChallengerA brilliant, bearded and quarrelsome scientist who trusts only the laboratory and treats talk of spirits with scorn.
- Enid ChallengerThe professor's grown daughter, independent and steady, who takes the claims of spiritualism seriously despite her father's anger.
- Edward MaloneA newspaper reporter and old companion of Challenger, who investigates the séances with a sceptic's eye and a decent heart.
- Algernon MaileyA calm and well-read believer in spiritualism who answers Challenger's objections with cases and patient argument.
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Le Pays de la brume
by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1926
Professor Challenger confronts séances as his daughter and his friend Malone are drawn into spiritualism.
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The Land of Mist is a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1926 and first printed in magazine form. It brings back Professor Challenger, the roaring, bearded scientist of The Lost World.
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Challenger returns older, louder, and alone
The story opens in the England of the 1920s, and Professor George Edward Challenger is no longer the man who led an expedition into unknown country. He has lost his wife, the small and patient woman who once softened his temper. Those who know the earlier books will feel her absence at once. The house is quieter, and the great man is a little more shut in with his own opinions.
Challenger is still a scientist to his bones. He believes in what can be measured, weighed and repeated in a laboratory. He holds the public in some contempt, and he holds fashionable beliefs in more. When people speak of messages from the dead, he does not argue gently. He thunders.
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What is The Land of Mist about?
It follows Professor Challenger, a stubborn scientist, as his daughter and his friend Malone get drawn into séances and the spiritualist movement. The book is a story and an argument about proof, grief and belief.
Is The Land of Mist a Sherlock Holmes book?
No. It is a Professor Challenger novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, a sequel to the adventure books that began with The Lost World. Holmes does not appear in it.
When was The Land of Mist written?
It was published in 1926, near the end of Doyle's life. By then he had become a leading public voice for spiritualism, and the novel carries his views.
The author
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930 · British detective novelist
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician born in Edinburgh in 1859. He practised medicine in England and wrote novels, short stories and histories. His Sherlock Holmes stories began with A Study in Scarlet in 1887. He also wrote The Lost World in 1912. He died in Crowborough, England, in 1930.
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