The book reveals to the Russian reader a completely unknown side of the life and work of A. C. Doyle, who devoted almost 50 years of his life to the study of spiritualism - a doctrine that solves the riddle of life and death, as well as all the difficulties of philosophy and religion and puts an end to the confrontation between science and religion. His “History of Spiritualism” is an amazing book, its freshness has not faded in the years since it was written. According to one English critic, “few books devoted to the study of the occult can stand comparison with the fascinating narrative written by the inspired pen of Conan Doyle.” Through the efforts of the author, separate and unrelated notes on spiritualism were collected and combined into a monograph on the history of the spiritualist movement. Edition 1998.