Christine Ferguson is a Professor in English Studies in the Division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist and Other Spiritualist Writings will be published in 2026 as part of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle