No Ghost Need Apply
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Sherlock Holmes' creator wants to believe. In this episode we meet mentalists, mesmerists, and mediums, the Fox sisters, and even Harry Houdini as we explore the origins of Spiritualism and the life and occult studies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Researched, written, and produced by Corinne Wieben, featuring the voice talents of Lenny Scovel and Randy Wylde, with original music by Purple Planet.
Music
Purple Planet - Teamwork
Purple Planet - Possession
Purple Planet - Finding Mithral
Purple Planet - Lament
Purple Planet - Tears of Beauty
Purple Planet - Sense of Loss
Purple Planet - Shadowlands
Sources
Primary
Doyle, Arthur Conan. “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. London: J. Murray, 1927.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Coming of the Fairies. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The History of Spiritualism. London: Cassell, 1926.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Sign of the Four, or The Problem of the Sholtos. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1890.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Jon L. Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. New York: Penguin Press, 2007.
Doyle, Arthur Conan and Joseph McCabe. A Debate On Spiritualism. Girard, Kansas: Appeal to Reason, 1920.
Houdini, Harry. A Magician Among the Spirits. Cambridge University Press, 2011 (orig. 1924).
McCabe, Joseph. Is Spiritualism Based On Fraud? The Evidence Given By Sir A. C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined. London: Wats & Co. 1920.
Secondary
Beresiner, Yasha. “Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualist and Freemason.” Masonic papers. Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry. Accessed June 25, 2021.
Chism, Stephen J. “The very Happiest Tiding’: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Correspondence with Arkansas Spiritualists.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 59, no. 3 (Autumn 2000): 299–310.
“Conan Doyle and Spiritualism.” The Life and Work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Accessed June 25, 2021.
The Conan Doyle Estate. “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Beliefs and Experiences.” The Many Men of Arthur Conan Doyle. Accessed June 25, 2021.
Dalrymple, Theodore. “The Comforts of Spiritualism.” BMJ : British Medical Journal 344, no. 7857 (2012): 42-42.
Diniejko, Andrzej. “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Victorian Spiritualism.” The Victorian Web. Last modified November 14, 2013.
Johnson, George M. Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015.
Lovegrove, James. “Sherlock Holmes Versus the Supernatural: A Reading List of Sherlock Countering Magic and the Occult.” CrimeReads. July 24, 2018.
Sandford, Christopher. Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Sandford, Christopher. “When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Maybe) Spoke with the Dead.” America: The Jesuit Review (December 2020).
Simanek, Donald E. “Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualism, and Fairies.” Donald Simanek's Pages. Last updated January 2009.
Wingett, Matt. Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light, 1887–1920. Portsmouth, England: Life Is Amazing, 2016.
