This is, in some ways, a terribly sad book. Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism to help him deal with the vast wave of senseless death which had ravaged his family. His views made him, and I hope not to offend any spiritualists reading, terribly gullible, because the way spiritualists demonstrated th

The reason for looking up and reading this obscure piece of history is because the recent rediscovery of a very cute movie titled: Fairy Tale: a true story. This short book is the nonfiction account of the events dramatized in the aforementioned movie. The events being the infamous Cottingly Fairy p

"The series of incidents set forth in this little volume represent either the most elaborate and ingenious hoax ever played upon the public, or else they constitute an event in human history which may in the future appear to have been epoch-making in its character."

If somebody ever asks me what my

This book is completely bonkers. Supposedly it is a factual account presenting what may be proof of the existence of fairies. The first half of the book is devoted to the 'famous Cottingley photographs' and the second half to miscellaneous accounts of other fairies. Sadly the picture quality is so p

Being a fan of Conan Doyle's fiction and having read previous accounts of the Cottingley fairies within various 'mysteries of the world' type books, I was both eager and wary to read 'The Coming of the Fairies'.

Thankfully, I was spared the second-hand embarrassment I thought I was going to endure.

The first half was interesting but the second one was like a constant Blah Blah Blah.

I read The Coming of the Fairies to try to answer for myself the question of how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle could bring himself to believe in fairies.

Since the book is not well-known I’ll first give a summary of its contents.

This is a relatively short book (196 pages) containing the 5 “fairy photographs