Author: Theresa Crater

Best-selling and award-winning author Theresa Crater brings ancient temples, lost civilizations, and secret societies back to life in her visionary fiction. Her Power Places series includes Under the Stone Paw, Beneath the Hallowed Hill and Return of the Grail King, winner for best fiction from COVR. The new Mystic Assassin series starts with Assassin Awakens. Stand-alone novels include School of Hard Knocks, The Star Family and God in a Box. The Star Family won best fiction in the Indie Spirit Book Awards in 2015. She retired from the English Department at MSU-Denver and teaches creative writing in the graduate program for SNHU as well as doing freelance editing. She continues to teach meditation.
Is The Midnight Library Visionary Fiction? A Visionary Fiction Book Review by Theresa Crater
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Is The Midnight Library Visionary Fiction? A Visionary Fiction Book Review by Theresa Crater

I just finished up a reading spree of paranormal suspense and felt like a change of pace. I downloaded samples of several best sellers and books recommended by friends and lists. The Midnight Library hooked me. Why? Because for me, it’s visionary fiction at its best. One of the most defining elements of Visionary Fiction…

Merlin’s Daughter by T.L. Ashcroft-Nowicki – A Book Review by Theresa Crater, PhD.

Merlin’s Daughter by T.L. Ashcroft-Nowicki – A Book Review by Theresa Crater, PhD.

“Well now, there’s legends and then there’s secrets that the legends hide.” ~The Singing Stones Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and T.L. Ashcroft-Nowicki, mother and daughter, have both written new takes on the Arthurian legends in the last few years. Dolores wrote The Singing Stones for her grandson and she plans to write more. T.L.’s first novel of…

The Singing Stones by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki – A Book Review by Theresa Crater, PhD.

The Singing Stones by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki – A Book Review by Theresa Crater, PhD.

“Well now, there’s legends and then there’s secrets that the legends hide.” Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and T.L. Ashcroft-Nowicki, mother and daughter, have both written new takes on the Arthurian legends in the last few years. Dolores wrote The Singing Stones for her grandson and she plans to write more. T.L.’s first novel of a planned trilogy…

The Winged Bull by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

The Winged Bull by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

The protagonist in The Winged Bull is Ted Murchison, who served in the war and endured joblessness, and now doubts conventional religion. But this unlikely character has a vision of the Winged Bull in the British Museum. As this is occurring, he encounters his old commanding officer, Alick Brandwyn, who is of course a magical…

The Demon Lover Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

The Demon Lover Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

The Mystical Qabalah gives the theory, but the novels give the practice. Those who study The Mystical Qabalah with the help of the novels get the keys of the Temple put into their hands. – Dion Fortune, Moon Magic I was browsing in the Theosophical bookstore tucked in a small street off Broadway, in Seattle’s…

The Sea Priestess Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

The Sea Priestess Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

Many people are familiar with Dion Fortune as a spiritual teacher in the Western Metaphysical Tradition, the founder of Fraternity of the Inner Light (later renamed the Society of the Inner Light). She was born Violet Mary Firth in Wales in December of 1890. Dion Fortune showed psychic abilities as a child and later reported…

The Secrets of Dr. Taverner by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

The Secrets of Dr. Taverner by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

In The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, Dion Fortune’s short story collection featuring the magical adept and psychiatrist by the same name, we met many interesting characters in the throes of mental crisis that have a spiritual cause, or the families of seekers who want to throw their relative who is not behaving according to social…

The Goat Foot God by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

The Goat Foot God by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

Paston fastens on a book about the Eleusinian Mysteries and takes it into his head to evoke Pan. Jelkes is the shop keeper, of course, an adept, who guides him along. Understanding Paston cannot be stopped, Jelkes undertakes his instruction. Paston has become fascinated by some books that might be dangerous to him, as Alex…

Moon Magic by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

Moon Magic by Dion Fortune – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

Many people are familiar with Dion Fortune as a spiritual teacher in the Western Metaphysical Tradition, the founder of Fraternity of the Inner Light (later re-named the Society of the Inner Light). She was born Violet Mary Firth in Wales in December of 1890. Dion Fortune showed psychic abilities as a child, and later reported…

Two New  Arthurian Visionary Fiction Novels by Theresa Crater

Two New Arthurian Visionary Fiction Novels by Theresa Crater

“Well now, there’s legends and then there’s secrets that the legends hide.” ~The Singing Stones Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and T.L. Ashcroft-Nowicki, mother and daughter, have both written new takes on the Arthurian legends in the last few years. Dolores wrote The Singing Stones for her grandson and she plans to write more. T.L.’s first novel of…

The Goddess of the Stars and the Sea series by Jodine Turner – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

The Goddess of the Stars and the Sea series by Jodine Turner – A Visionary Fiction Alliance Book Review by Theresa Crater

Jodine Turner’s Visionary Fiction series traces the reincarnations of a priestess specially called to do the work of the Goddess of the Stars and the Sea, an Ancient One who reawakens when humanity is ready for a dramatic shift in consciousness. The first novel in the series shows us the fall of Atlantis and the…

The Lesser Known Novels of Dion Fortune,  Part 3 – by Theresa Crater

The Lesser Known Novels of Dion Fortune, Part 3 – by Theresa Crater

Read Part 1 and Part 2 of Theresa Crater’s review of Dion Fortune’s Visionary Fiction novels. “The Mystical Qabalah gives the theory, but the novels give the practice . . . [T]hose who study The Mystical Qabalah with the help of the novels get the keys of the Temple put into their hands.” ~ from…

Dion Fortune: Spiritual Teacher and Visionary Fiction Writer, Part 2 – by Theresa Crater

Dion Fortune: Spiritual Teacher and Visionary Fiction Writer, Part 2 – by Theresa Crater

(You can read Part 1 of Theresa Crater’s series on Visionary Fiction author Dion Fortune here.) “He thought less of death than most people think of emigration; in fact, he seemed to regard it in exactly that light.”  In The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, Dion Fortune’s short story collection featuring the magical adept and psychiatrist by the same…

Dion Fortune: Spiritual Teacher and Visionary Fiction Writer, Part 1 – by Theresa Crater

Dion Fortune: Spiritual Teacher and Visionary Fiction Writer, Part 1 – by Theresa Crater

Many people are familiar with Dion Fortune as a spiritual teacher in the Western Metaphysical Tradition, the founder of Fraternity of the Inner Light (later re-named the Society of the Inner Light). She was born Violet Mary Firth in Wales in December of 1890. Dion Fortune showed psychic abilities as a child, and later reported…

Visionary Fiction:  New Views of an Old Religion

Visionary Fiction: New Views of an Old Religion

I think that Dan Brown, Kathleen McGowan, and Kate Mosse all write visionary fiction. They have taken Christianity and given the world a new view of it. They’ve explored something we all thought we knew and made it mysterious, something that needs to be investigated and re-experienced, not just accepted at face value. Many were…