tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post1478215513856796708..comments2024-03-29T07:33:59.039+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Classic Ghost Story Writers: Arthur Conan DoyleDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-24022601667392606772021-03-10T07:07:06.134+13:002021-03-10T07:07:06.134+13:00Yes, I think it would be fair to say that the film...Yes, I think it would be fair to say that the film rather over-simplifies things in this respect, though. Doyle was already interested in Spiritualism well before the war, though most of his publications in the field date from afterwards.<br /><br />Though he did denounce the false comfort given by mediums in "The Road to En-dor," it's interesting just how much of Kipling's fiction is concerned with ghosts and the supernatural: "Wireless," "The House-Surgeon," "They" - even "The Brushwood Boy." Certainly neither he nor his wife Carrie ever got over their son's death.Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-66147589772543835832021-03-09T21:00:12.607+13:002021-03-09T21:00:12.607+13:00"it was the loss of his son Kingsley in the F..."it was the loss of his son Kingsley in the First World War - he died of influenza caught at the front two weeks before the armistice - that compels Doyle to continue his quest for communication beyond the veil."<br />It's interesting that Kipling - a much greater artist than Doyle - contemptuously rejected that carrion comfort in "The Road to Endor", but wrote stories that treated war loss much more directly, as he had done before after his first daughter's death.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com