The School of Darkness

From the flaps of the Doubleday first edition: "John Thunstone, psychic adventurer, investigator, and unsurpassed scholar on the powers of darkness, is back in a new tale by author Manly Wade Wellman. The School of Darkness hurls Thunstone into a fantastic - and all too direct - confrontation with the forces of evil and supernatural terror. Buford State University has invited Thunstone to sit on the panel of its distinguished American Folklore Survey Symposium. The impressive roster of participants also includes a Jesuit versed in the ways of exorcism, a Cherokee medicine man, and one uninvited (and most unwelcome) guest: the infamous Rowley Thorne, the world's foremost practitioner of the black arts and sworn enemy of John Thunstone. Buford State itself has a dark and mysterious history, haunted by a centuries-old pact with the devil. And soon a bizarre and terrifying dance of death commences, as the apostles of evil rise up to inflict the curse of Satan upon the beseiged [sic] campus. Frenzied revels of witchcraft, accompanied by blood sacrifice and the howling of beasts, become part of the curriculum as Thunstone is put to the ultimate test: a face-to-face, psychic duel between good and evil, love and hate... life and death."