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Product Identifiers

PublisherRed Wheel/Weiser

ISBN-100877285004

ISBN-139780877285007

eBay Product ID (ePID)621706

Product Key Features

Book TitleGoat Foot God

Number of Pages392 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicOccult & Supernatural, Thrillers / Espionage, Thrillers / Psychological, Romance / Suspense

Publication Year1971

FeaturesReprint

GenreFiction

AuthorDion Fortune

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight16.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN70-027597

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal823/.912

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisAn original novel in which the 15th and 20th centuries meet with uncanny results, due to the invocation of Pan. This work is of special interest to students of magic and the Western Mystery Tradition., Following his wife's tragic death, a rich man attempts to contact the god Pan, and his efforts yield spirited results in this classic occult novel. In her compelling way, Dion Fortune combines romance, suspense, and the search for truth and meaning in this psychological thriller that deals ultimately with the growth of consciousness and the path to self-knowledge. Wealthy, skeptical Hugh Paston, shocked by the death of his wife with her lover in a car crash, finds himself at a crossroads in his life. In search of a distraction, he wanders into the shop of an antiquarian bookseller who befriends him and sparks his interest in occult literature. Hugh is drawn to study the Eleusinian Mysteries and, determined to evoke Pan, the goat-foot god, he buys Monks Farm, a former monastery, long unused and sinking into ruin. With the aid of Mona Wilton, a young artist, Hugh refurbishes and revitalizes the property in preparation for the rites. In the ancient monastery, he is possessed by the spirit of a fifteenth-century prior, Ambrosius, who had been walled up in the cellar for practicing certain pagan rituals he had discovered in old Greek manuscripts in the monastery library--rituals dedicated to Pan.