Mesmer Milann

MESMER MILANN

"If you will clear your mind of old conceptions and prejudices you will see that there must be as many kinds of spirits as there are kinds of humans. Souls, having cast off the garment that is the body, are not merely divided into two kinds-the good and the bad. To any sane person that should be unthinkable-to me it is a matter of proven know­ledge-for I have been with them in the places whither they go and from whence they come... And I have seen them..."

Bertram Atkey is known for his stories featuring lovable rogue Smiler Bunn, time-wandering hero Hobart Honey, and upper-class detective Prosper Fair, characters which he wrote about in a light, comic style. But he also wrote a series of dark tales about a mysterious psychic known as Mesmer Milann.

Mike Ashley has collected these seven stories-some exceedingly rare-that present the case history of Mesmer Milann, Mediator of the Occult. Here are stories of threats and emanations from the astral realm including a haunted valley guarded by two malignant spirits ... a moonlight muse with an earthly mission ... a Druid's Stone that holds a deadly secret ... enter the weird world of Mesmer Milann!