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Milann, Mesmer. Mesmer Milann was created by Bertram Atkey (Smiler Bunn, Dragour, Easy Street Experts, Prosper Fair, Hobart Honey, George H. Jay, Winnie O'Wynn) and appeared in five stories in The Grand Magazine in 1914 and 1915, beginning with “The Valley of the Veils of Death” (The Grand Magazine, Nov. 1914).

Mesmer Milann is a consulting Occult Detective, and certainly looks the part, with a “well-fitting frock-coat,” “square, powerful, hard-chiseled face,” “intensely” dark eyes, a bald head, and a “singular quality of immobility.” He has been the “recipient of the more weighty secrets of thousands of the class of people likely to possess secrets.” And he is the master of a wide range of strange and arcane lore. All of which makes him ideal in his role as a “mediator…between human, living people and those that were neither human nor living….”

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