The Terrors of Dr. Treviles. Penelope Shuttle. Peter Redgrove. Signed by both authors. 1974. First Edition. Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
Near Fine Condition. Hardcover with blue cloth boards and vibrant psychedelic unclipped dust jacket. Both authors have signed the title page. Pages are clean and binding is firm.
From the inside flap: The Terrors of Dr Treviles is the story of a vocation and a quest. The hero, Gregory Treviles, is a doctor whose healing gift is a terrifying and vivid imagination. His quest is to explore wherever his images lead and to discover in so doing the real use of these bizarre energies; the question he asks himself is: ‘And whom does this Grail serve?’ His quest becomes entwined with the lives of his brilliant red-headed step-daughter Robyn, a molecular biologist who is also a witch; of another doctor, Brid Hare, who hides a secret she believes is shameful; and the deathly life of Treviles’s deceased wife, Mamie. The energy liberated by Treviles’s imagination changes all these lives, besides involving also that of a foolish saintly clergyman, Alex Bodkin, and many other beings, disciplines and creatures, such as blood-magic, slapstick comedy, Laurel and Hardy, Satan, and the University of Cornwall. ‘
The Terrors of Dr Treviles is a romance of Science and the Supernatural, and of ordinary but gifted people exploring the dark sides of their gifts in order to bring them into the light.
