Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once.

So lie back, adjust your volume.

Take a nice, deep breath.

And off we go. This evening we're reading a little work about a very curious cultural phenomena that occurred at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Coming of the Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

author of the New Revelation, The Vital Message,

Wanderings of a Spiritualist,

illustrated from photographs,

copyright 1921 and 1922 by the George H. Doren Company, New York.

Let's begin.

Preface. Let's begin.

Preface. This book contains reproductions of the famous coddingly photographs

and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them.

The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures.

This narrative is not a special plea for that authenticity,

but is simply a collection of facts

the inferences from which may be accepted or rejected

as the reader may think fit. I would warn the critic, however, not to be

led away by the sophistry that because some professional trickster, apt the game of deception, can produce a somewhat similar effect.

Therefore, the originals were produced in the same way.

There are few realities which cannot be imitated, and the ancient argument that because conjurers

on their own prepared plates or stages can produce certain results, therefore similar results obtained by untrained people

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