Doctor Orient: A Journey Into the Occult

Frank Lauria

Apr 2014 · The Doctor Orient Novels Book 1 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

A psychic doctor and his paranormally gifted team fight to save the soul of a young girl—and the city—in this classic occult pulp thriller series opener.

A coven of witches and warlocks—among them some of New York’s most prominent celebrities—toying with sexual perversion, black magic, and human sacrifice. . . . 

A hot downtown discotheque where an incredibly beautiful sixteen‑year‑old seduces young men into the service of Satan. . . .

A defrocked priest whose all-consuming ambition and awesome occult powers make him famous enough to lure a capacity crowd to Yankee Stadium to witness a dark “miracle”—the cure of the vice‑president’s daughter….

Doctor Owen Orient, psychiatrist, physician, psychic adept—and his team of telepaths—stake their lives against a ravening evil . . .

About the author

Frank Lauria was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Manhattan College. He is a published poet and songwriter and has worked in the publishing industry as a copywriter and editor. He has been writing novels since 1970 and his twenty books include five bestsellers. He has traveled extensively through the Middle East, Morocco, and Europe to research his occult novels. He lived through and participated in the Beat era, reading poetry with Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, and most of the other well-known artists associated with the movement. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches creative writing and performs with his rap band.

Lauria blogs regularly and publishes installments in his autobiographical journey through the cultural past of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Lauria is perhaps best known for the seven volumes of the Doctor Orient series. Doctor Orient is a delver into mystery and the arcane, a knowledgeable man on all subjects occult, and a seeker of truth. His adventures take him around the world and into the depths of psychic and spiritual challenge and adventure. The books in the series are Doctor Orient (1971), Raga Six (1972), Lady Sativa (1973), Baron Orgaz (1974), The Priestess (1978), The Seth Papers (1979), and Blue Limbo (1991). An eighth Doctor Orient novel is currently in the works.

Lauria has written a number of tie-in and young adult novelizations of hit movies, including Dark City (1997), Pitch Black (1999), and End of Days (1999), as well as a series of Zorro novelizations.