"Rain is responsible for a great deal more than the mere growth of vegetables -- it is a controller, if a somewhat capricious controller, of man's destiny." Thus begins Elliott O'Donnell's novel, The Sorcery Club and thus begins the story of Leon Hamar who is forced to take refuge in a second-hand bookstore to avoid the rain and there ends up acquiring a curious book on the black arts in Atlantis. Hamar and his two friends study the book and the information contained therein with surprising and frightening results. Although The Sorcery Club is fiction, Elliott O'Donnell was an interested observer of psychic and supernatural phenomenon and wrote many factual books as well.