Dr. John Silence, physician extraordinaire, specializes in a very particular sort of illness call it a sickness of the spirit. Many of his patients, of course, suffer from nothing more mundane than madness. He knows how to help madmen when he must. But many others - require the skills not merely of a physician, but of a spiritual detective; a Sherlock Holmes of the arcane; an M. Poirot of the outré. Here are the tales of those extraordinary cases, these are the tales of JOHN SILENCE