Tuesday, June 02, 2026

The Ghostly "Automatic Writing" Sequel

After Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, a well-known spiritualist medium named Harry Price claimed that Doyle’s ghost had contacted him from beyond the grave. The medium insisted that Doyle was incredibly angry because he hadn't finished his final ideas. Price claimed that Doyle's ghost used "automatic writing" to dictate an entire new Sherlock Holmes short story through the medium's hands. When the story was published, critics and fans universally mocked it for being terribly written, leading to online jokes that Doyle was a genius in life but a terrible writer in death.