Although Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, he also wrote many other books including a science fiction series and several non-fiction works. Doyle believed in spiritualism that today would be called psychic experiences or metaphysics. Doyle believed in the existence of a soul and eternal life, while offering an intriguing view of existence in relationship to a greater being. The New Revelation was published in 1918 and is a concise statement of Doyle's beliefs in topics such as psychic experiences, life after death, mediums, automatic writing and related phenomena. The index provides an excellent bibliography on the topic.