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""What was it? They could not tell themselves. They only knew that the black shadows at the top of the staircase had thickened, had coalesced, had taken a definite, batlike shape."" In this gem of science fiction, the heart-stopping adventures of Professor Challenger, the protagonist, make for the kind of exhilarating reading one expects from Doyle.

This is the third and last novel in the "Professor Challenger" series, and is a marked departure from the previous tales. In this novel Challenger becomes a Spiritualist, and the novel strongly promotes the concept of Spiritualism. A belief strongly adopted by the author towards the end of his life. This novel was first published in a serial form in "The Strand" magazine July 1925-May 1928.

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""What was it? They could not tell themselves. They only knew that the black shadows at the top of the staircase had thickened, had coalesced, had taken a definite, batlike shape."" In this gem of science fiction, the heart-stopping adventures of Professor Challenger, the protagonist, make for the kind of exhilarating reading one expects from Doyle.