Tagged “Victor Rousseau”
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The Blackest Magic of All
After Victor Rousseau concluded his Dr. Martinus series, he wrote at least two more occult researcher stories. I've posted the first one today. The immediate successor to Dr. Martinus was Professor Rinaldi: his story appeared in the July 1928 issue of...
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The Doll That Came to Life
I've posted another Dr. Martinus story to the project page. In The Doll That Came to Life, Dr. Martinus must contend with both a malicious, doll-possessing poltergeist, and a fraudulent spiritualist who keeps giving their mutual client the wrong advice....
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Dr. Martinus, Occultist
Continuing my series on The Occult Detectives of Victor Rousseau. In 1926, about a decade and a half after his Dr. Phileas Immanuel series, Victor Rousseau created Dr. Martinus. Martinus is Dutch-born, but like Rousseau's previous occult physicians,...
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The Return of Claudia
Finishing up with Dr. Immanuel... The last Tracer of Egos story to appear in The Evening Republican was "The Return of Claudia," on April 18, 1917. In this tale, Dr. Immanuel must deal with a case of dissociative identity disorder:...
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The Wife of Ira Hopkins
We're almost to the end of the Dr. Immanuel stories, by Victor Rousseau! In "The Wife of Ira Hopkins," Dr. Immanuel attempts to treat a young woman who has been hypnotized into believing that she's married to a man she barely knows. Seems like...
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The Woman of Atlantis
Another tale of reincarnation, by Victor Rousseau. In "The Woman of Atlantis," Dr. Immanuel's latest patient is a successful writer named Field, whose new novel is a tragic love story, set in Atlantis. Field falls in love with Lota, the heroine...
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The Professor's Peach Trees
Another Victor Rousseau story: in "The Professor's Peach Trees," Dr. Immanuel tells his friends the story of a woman who was reincarnated—as a plant! Several plants, to be exact: peach trees, and flowers. The story also mentions the remarkable...
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The Carfax Curse
Way back in February, I introduced the occult detective (or better, "occult physician") series Dr. Phileas Immanuel, Tracer of Egos, by Victor Rousseau. I've gotten sidetracked by a lot of things since then, but I haven't forgotten it! So here's...
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Dr. Phileas Immanuel, Tracer of Egos
Continuing my series on The Occult Detectives of Victor Rousseau. Rousseau's second occult detective series features Dr. Phileas Immanuel, an eminent Greek physician with unorthodox views on mental illness and criminality. He has two regular sidekicks:...
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The Occult Detectives of Victor Rousseau
Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960) was a British-born journalist, novelist and pulp fiction writer who lived at various times in Britain, South Africa, Canada, and the United States. He wrote fiction in a variety of genres, under several pen names, but...
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