Mariane Zimmer-Bradley was a sex pest

Writer of the Mists of Avalon, the late Mariane Zimmer-Bradley has been accused of sexually abusing her daughter and assisting her sex pest husband in his attacks on children.

Moira Greyland, Bradley's daughter, went public with her accusation on the blog of the author Deirdre Saoirse Moen earlier this month.

"The first time she molested me, I was three. The last time, I was 12, and able to walk away … She was cruel and violent, as well as completely out of her mind sexually. I am not her only victim, nor were her only victims girls."

Greyland is the daughter of Bradley and Walter Breen, who was jailed for child molestation and died in prison.

Greyland wrote in her email: "I put Walter in jail for molesting one boy... Walter was a serial rapist with many, many, many victims (I named 22 to the cops) but Marion was far, far worse."

Bradley, who died in 1999, has been a celebrated author, beloved for her take on the Arthurian legend, which inspired many occultists to embrace the Arthurian Tradition.

In the late 1950s, Bradley and Breen founded the Aquarian Order of the Restoration based on the work of Dion Fortune. By 1961, they were initiating others. She was also active in Darkmoon Circle, founded in 1978 by several women who were members of her Aquarian Order of the Restoration.

Bradley renovated her garage to provide a meeting room for Darkmoon Circle and other local Pagan groups. Before her death, she apparently gave up on Paganism and returned to the Episcopalian church.

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