The Coming of the Fairies

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930), best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs apparently showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. To demonstrate his unshakeable belief in the spirit world, he published The Coming of the Fairies in 1922. Doyle’s book lays out the story of the photographs, their supposed provenance, and the implications of their existence.
Featuring an original extract from a 1920 article from The Liverpool Echo about Doyle and the fairy photographs, this quirky and fascinating book allows us to get inside the mind of an intelligent, highly respected man who happened to believe in fairies.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jul 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9781446358382

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

Reviews for The Coming of the Fairies

[john257hopper · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I thought this worth a look for curiosity's sake to see what led the great author to be convinced that fairies really existed. This short book focuses on: whether the Cottingley photos could have been tampered with; accounts of alleged sightings around the world by various people; and, most strangely, another spiritualist's views on how fairies fit into natural processes like pollination, and discussion of different races and colours of fairies in different parts of the world. While he is hugely sympathetic, Doyle does not come right out and say fairies definitely exist; but, it is certainly the outcome that he wishes to be given just that final evidential push to become, in his view, a certainty. 3/5

[ashroc · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Just when you think fairies might actually be real ...