The Law of the Ghost E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 28

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

The Law of the Ghost is a chilling tale in which a spectral figure appears to demand justice. Blending crime fiction with the supernatural, Doyle poses the question: can the dead influence the fate of the living? A ghost story with legal overtones, it evokes eerie suspense while reflecting on guilt, conscience, and unresolved wrongdoing.

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The Law of the Ghost

The Uncharted Coast Series

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Prepared and edited by: Rafat Allam

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First published in The Strand Magazine, December 1919

First book appearance in The Edge Of The Unknown, 1930

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First published in The Strand Magazine, December 1919 First book appearance in The Edge Of The Unknown, 1930

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IT is safe to say that for some centuries to come the human race will be very actively engaged in defining the laws which regulate psychic affairs, and it is fortunately a line of study which has the peculiar advantage to those who indulge in it that they can pursue it just as well, and probably better, from the other side of the veil. At present there is work lying to hand for a hundred investigators. The innumerable records which exist in various forms, and which are scattered throughout papers, magazines, reports of learned societies, family traditions, etc., are like masses of ore which have been extracted from the ground but are still lying in dumps waiting to be separated into precious ingots on the one side and slag-heap on the other. They have to be examined, collected into classes, reviewed in the light of our ever- increasing psychic knowledge, and an endeavour made to find underlying principles running through this vague collection of matter, so that at last we may touch solid ground by getting hold of some elementary laws. The first thing is that we should have authentic cases so that the foundation of our reasoning may be sound. The second is to compare these authentic cases together and see what common characteristics they possess, shirking nothing and following the facts wherever they lead without any preliminary prejudice. This is, of course, the true scientific fashion, but it is unfortunately one which has been neglected by most scientific men in approaching this new subject which would not fit in with their preconceived ideas. Let us hunt among these fascinating problems for shards and splinters out of which a noble mosaic will one day be constructed, and let us see whether here and there we may not find two or three pieces which fit together, and give some idea of a permanent pattern, even though it be a fantastic one. I will begin by telling three stories which seem to be absolutely authentic, and then we shall endeavour to trace some underlying connection.

For full particulars of the first case the reader is referred to West Indian Tales