THE BLACK FOX
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A long rather dreary novel with a period setting - a cathedral close in the 1870's, in which Canons (rivals for the post of Dean), Bishops and Archdeacons play out a strange drama of the occult. Canon Throckton, ""a better Arabian than Christian"", wins the post but is thereafter haunted by a moulting black fox, a vision projected through his sister, Laetitia, who sacrifices herself to help him, with the assistance of a learned Egyptian sheik. A bit creaky as to the machinery of occultism, and a bit unprepossessing in its display of the conflict of personalities. The author is best known at the moment here for his defence of flying saucers in Is Another World Watching?