The Man From Beyond: A Novel

by Gabriel Brownstein

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"They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear."
-Lafew, in Williams Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well"

"There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."
-Sherlock Holmes, in Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Case of Identity"

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sprawls in a beach chair.

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From the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, a debut novel featuring Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

It is April 1922. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in New York on a spiritualist crusade. To packed houses at Carnegie Hall, he displays photographs of ghosts and spirits; of female mediums bound and gagged, ectoplasmic goo emerging from their bodies. In the newspapers, he defends the powers of the mysterious Margery, one of the most famous mediums of the day. His good friend Harry Houdini is a skeptic, and when Doyle claims Margery's powers are superior to Houdini's, the magician goes on the attack. Into this mix of spirit-chasing celebrities enters Molly Goodman, a young reporter whose job is to cover the heated debate. As she wanders into this world of spooks and spirits, murder and criminal frauds, Molly discovers herself: her true love, her place in the world; even her relationship to her beloved dead brother, Carl.

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Attending to packed crowds during a spiritualist tour of New York in 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle defends the powers of a famous medium in spite of the skepticism of his good friend, Harry Houdini, who takes umbrage to Doyles claims that the mediums abilities surpass Houdinis.… (more)