The Secrets of Dr. Taverner
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Home from the front, a World War I veteran struggles with more than just "shell shock" ... a vampiric hunger threatens to consume him.
A man with a dickey heart isn't convinced the large black hound that stalks him is real ... but he is no less terrified of its menacing demeanor.
Repulsed by her feral behavior, a teenage girl's family all but disowns her ... before strange elfin beings parading on the moor under the full moon embrace her as one of their own.
When afflictions of the soul can't be solved by mere psychology, the desperate turn to Dr. Taverner for answers. Aided by his assistant Dr. Rhodes, the pair investigates reincarnation, soul transference, cursed items, and other matters of the occult to relieve their patients of dark influences.
Fans of Sherlock Holmes and the supernatural will love this collection of mystery-horror stories written by Dion Fortune, an early twentieth-century authority on spiritualism and applied magic. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, this fine new edition of The Secrets of Dr. Taverner is a must-have for readers of occult horror.
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About the author
Dion Fortune (1890–1946) was an early practitioner of Freudian psychology whose interests in human behavior and the nature of the soul drew her to the teachings of theosophy. She was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which she left in 1924 to found the Fraternity of the Inner Light, a spiritualist organization that is still active today. Her mentor in the practice of occultism was a Freemason named Theodore Moriarity. Their work together is the inspiration behind The Secrets of Dr. Taverner.
Dion Fortune authored more than twenty nonfiction books on the topics of psychology and occultism. Her works of fiction include seven novels that explore concepts of applied magic. Today, she is widely considered to be an authority on twentieth-century spiritualism and a link to modern Pagan religi
