Secrets of Doctor Taverner

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The adventures of Dr. Taverner and Dr. Rhodes take readers across the marshy moonlit fields of nightfall, hunting spirits and keeping watch over souls. Suffering from vampirism? Being stalked by a death hound? Haunted by past life debts? Is your family under a suicidal curse? From across the countryside the patients and their desperate families come to seek treatment for unconventional diseases from an unconventional doctor. His secret? - treating the diseases of the occult with occult methods. This set of short stories rank among the best of esoteric short fiction ever produced. The introduction from Dion Fortune explains that "Taverner" is in fact based on a real person - an adept from whom she learned her own occult secrets and that the events placed forth in the book, although they have been presented as fiction, are all true.

Dion Fortune (1891-1946), founder of The Society of the Inner Light, is recognised as one of the most luminous figures of 20th-century esoteric thought. A prolific writer, pioneer psychologist, powerful psychic and spiritualist, she dedicated her life to the revival of the Western Mystery Tradition.

"Originally a series of ten short stories, this subsequent compilation became Dion Fortune's first novel. It began her tradition of using fiction as a teaching tool. She claimed that the tales were based on real occurrences and many believe it is an account of her relationship with her own metaphysical mentor. Whether it is fact or fiction is irrelevant. It's a classic paranormal adventure story, recounted by one of the pillars of the Western Mystery Tradition. In her foreword, Diana Paxson puts the book into the context of supernatural literary history for us. She also likens Fortune's genius doctor to both Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes. The book remains timely and fun, and Fortune remains one of the great metaphysical communicators."--Anna Jedrziewski, New Age Retailer July 2011