First published in 1926, &quot;The Secrets of Dr. Taverner&quot; is an essential and fun read for anyone interested in the Western Mystery Tradition, a work of supernatural fiction by acclaimed spiritualist and occult writer Dion Fortune.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Though Fortune wrote &quot;The Secrets of Dr. Taverner&quot; as her first novel, she maintained that all the events were based on true occurrences. Many believe Taverner to be Fortune&#39;s own spiritual teacher, Dr. Moriarty, and Rhodes to be based on Fortune herself.