Oliver Bland

Oliver Bland is credited as the author of The Adventures of a Modern Occultist, first published in 1920 and now preserved by public-domain archives and major library-style repositories. The book presents firsthand-style accounts of spiritualism, mediumship, automatic writing, and other psychic experiences, placing him among the more intriguing voices in early modern occult literature.

Reliable biographical detail about Bland himself is scarce. One modern reference describes him as an early-20th-century British occultist and notes that the name may have been used with deliberate anonymity, which fits the book’s private, exploratory tone.

Because so little can be confirmed with confidence, the most accurate picture of Oliver Bland comes through the work itself: a writer deeply interested in the borderlands between belief, investigation, and the supernatural. That uncertainty is part of what keeps the author memorable.