The foggy land
Das Nebelland (Originally: The Land of Mist ) is a 1926 novel by the British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . At the center of the story are spiritistic séances . This third episode of the Challenger Stories is one of the earlier science fiction novels in English, but at the same time takes up elements of the adventure novel .
Action at a glance
The plot begins several years after the events of Im Poison Stream : Both Mrs. Challenger and Professor Summerlee have died, but Professor Challenger's previously unmentioned daughter Enid is introduced. Furthermore, at the beginning of the narrative it is made clear that the previous novels were fiction within fiction , to which the “real” Professor Challenger reacted with fights and injunctions. - The following novels When the earth screamed and The disintegration machine , however, are directly connected to Im Poison Stream , with which Das Nebelland stands for itself.
In the course of the plot, Professor Challenger examines séances and other paranormal phenomena. He begins these investigations as a skeptic and expects to find out about the deception of charlatans.
To this end, he lets his friends Edward Malone and Lord John Roxton infiltrate seances to expose the media as fraudsters.
But signs of the existence of ghosts force Malone and Roxton to put aside their doubts. Finally, Enid Challenger demonstrates media skills and brings her father a personal message from the afterlife: After Challenger witnesses the manifestation of his dead wife, he comes to the conclusion that the phenomenon is real and that there is life after death .
Finally, Challenger concludes that this is the most important breakthrough in human history.