The Secrets of Dr. Taverner: Annotated Version with Foreword by Jonathan Maberry - Paperback

by Dion Fortune (Author), Joshua Ladd (Editor), Jonathan Maberry (Foreword by)

In this collection of strange cases, the mystic sleuth Dr. Taverner peels back the veil on paranormal mysteries.

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.