The Secrets of Doctor Taverner
Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction

This is a splendid read of paranormal/occult fiction. A collection of 12 stories originally published in magazines during the 1920s, the tales follow the adventures of a Sherlock Holmes type of character, the great psychic detective Doctor Taverner, and his assistant Dr. Rhodes (Taverner's Dr. Watso......more

As supernatural detective fiction goes, this is quite good. It's about a doctor who runs an asylum but is a sort of wizard on the side and each chapter is a different 'monster-of-the-week' style story about a patient. It covers the usual assortment, ghosts, dark magic, past lives, nature spirits etc......more

So entertaining to read this book as metaphysical Sherlock Holmes/Watson cases. I truly loved the characters of Dr. Taverner/Dr. Rhodes. These stories are stranger than fiction. That is for sure. In particular, the first story, called Blood Lust, a vampire tale, illustrated to me just how flat that......more

I very much enjoyed reading this book. It may even have provided me with one or two insights even given its fiction format. Dion Fortune writes quite well and it is quite interesting to get a description of the milieu in which occultism plays an integrated part, even though the protagonist is ostens......more

Tons of wisdom in these tales...and gerat fun to read. Dion Fortune is FANTASTIC. No occultist should be without her texts.......more