The Goat-Foot God

About this book

Hugh Paston's marriage has ended in betrayal and tragedy. Searching the shelves of an old bookshop, he becomes drawn to writings about pagan gods, ritual and a force that seems capable of returning life to his exhausted imagination.

Dion Fortune follows his experiments with invocations of Pan and the awakening of impulses his respectable life had kept buried. The novel blends occult instruction with psychological drama, exploring sexuality, guilt and the pull of ancient religious images. The bookshop and its volumes matter: the story begins with the possibility that a person might discover an entire magical tradition through reading.