John Silence, Physician Extraordinary

John Silence is no ordinary physician: wealthy, disciplined, and quietly uncanny, he devotes himself to cases that baffle conventional medicine, especially strange psychical disorders. When a Swedish acquaintance begs his help for Felix Pender, a comic writer whose talent has curdled into terror and silence, Silence is drawn into a mystery where illness, occult sensitivity, and hidden evil blur together. Pender and his wife describe a house haunted by an unseen presence, and Silence quickly realizes that the true affliction lies deeper than nerves or imagination. In private, Pender confesses to experimenting with Cannabis indica in hopes of sharpening his humor, only to awaken into a nightmare of distorted time, uncontrollable laughter, and a lurking female intelligence that seems to invade his mind. As Silence investigates, he tracks a shadowy force through woods, water, and a fog-bound house, where panic spreads and an eerie restoration of motion in Miss Wragge hints at the breaking of a spell. The mystery culminates in a smoking laundry and the revelation of a hostile fire-elemental, confirming Silence's role as a calm, fearless explorer of the supernatural. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.