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The Secrets of Dr. Taverner (1926)

di Dion Fortune

Altri autori: Gareth Knight (Introduzione)

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Death hounds, shape shifters, and vampires are among the patients treated by the Holmeslike Dr. Taverner and his assistant Dr. Rhodes in this work of supernatural fiction by acclaimed spiritualist and occult writer Dion Fortune.First published in 1926, 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? Family under a suicidal curse? From across the countryside patients and their desperate families come to seek treatment for unconventional diseases from an unconventional doctor. His secret? Treating the diseases of the occult.Though Fortune wrote The Secrets of Doctor Taverner as her first novel, she maintained that all the events were based on true occurrences. Many believe Taverner to be Fortune's own spiritual teacher, Dr. Moriarty, and Rhodes to be based on Fortune herself.An essential and fun read for anyone interested in the Western Mystery Tradition, Dion Fortune, the melding of medicine and magic, or just good oldfashioned paranormal fiction.… (altro)

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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. (

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wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 |

Just a horrible book about the occult. Horrible in many ways: formatting. There were chapter numbers in the middle of a sentence, about every 3-4 pages each page was only a half page and the 2nd half was a lot of numbers and letters looking like somebody's cat was playing on their keyboard. And last but not least, the story (ies) were far fetched. Most of them dealt with Dr. Taverner reuniting people's essence (souls) with their bodies. I can see these stories are very loosely based on Sherlock Holmes type sleuthing. The author, according to the book, was a spiritual guide (medium) which founded The Order of the Fraternal Light in the 1920's. She has written several books and supposedly dictated the last 2 chapters of one such book from beyond the grave (

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Tess_W | Apr 23, 2020 |

Dion Fortune (Violet Firth) is one of the few esoteric writers with a sense of humor. Dr. Taverner runs a hospital for 'strange cases' and only Dr. T. has the 'esoteric training' to deal with the very individual cases. Suffice it to say that the good Dr. never, or almost never consults any of the methods of Benjamin Rush or his ilk. There are no side splitting laughs in Fortune's collection, but don't let this keep you from looking into the matter. You will not go away disappointed. (

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Porius | Aug 20, 2010 |

Violet Firth actually posseses a sense of humor. Not of the slapstick variety but funny enough. Too many occultists are as dull as ditchwater, and even more pretentious. Nuncle Al Crowley is funny, tho usually at some poor gulls expence. (

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Nome dell'autore	Ruolo	Tipo di autore	Opera?	Stato
Dion Fortune	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	calcolato
Knight, Gareth	Introduzione	autore secondario	tutte le edizioni	confermato
Adrian, Jack	A cura di	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
McMillion-Nering, Deborah	Immagine di copertina	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato

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Death hounds, shape shifters, and vampires are among the patients treated by the Holmeslike Dr. Taverner and his assistant Dr. Rhodes in this work of supernatural fiction by acclaimed spiritualist and occult writer Dion Fortune.First published in 1926, 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? Family under a suicidal curse? From across the countryside patients and their desperate families come to seek treatment for unconventional diseases from an unconventional doctor. His secret? Treating the diseases of the occult.Though Fortune wrote The Secrets of Doctor Taverner as her first novel, she maintained that all the events were based on true occurrences. Many believe Taverner to be Fortune's own spiritual teacher, Dr. Moriarty, and Rhodes to be based on Fortune herself.An essential and fun read for anyone interested in the Western Mystery Tradition, Dion Fortune, the melding of medicine and magic, or just good oldfashioned paranormal fiction.

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