A Few Cases in the Occult Practice of Dr. John Silence is a novel by Algernon Blackwood consisting of five short stories. The title character of the novel, John Silence, is a kind of mystical lone detective and professional occultist, who undertakes to investigate cases in one way or another connected with all sorts of supernatural events. There is something special in the character of this man that determines the originality of his medical practice: he prefers complex, extraordinary cases , not amenable to trivial explanation and... and somehow elusive. They are generally considered mental disorders, and although John Silence will be the first to disagree with such a definition, many behind his back call him a psychiatrist. At the same time, he is also a subtle psychologist, ready to help people whom other doctors cannot help, because some cases may go beyond scope of their competencies...