New translation of Agrippa’s “Three Books of Occult Philosophy”

Inner Traditions has announced the November 16, 2021, publication of the first new translation in 350 years of Agrippa’s influential Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Translated and annotated by Eric Purdue, it will appear as a three-volume hardcover slipcased edition… Continue Reading

Buckland Museum t-shirt fundraises for Museum of Witchcraft and Magic

Hearing that the Museum of Withcraft and Magic in Bocastle, England, might not open this year due to COVID-19, the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick (Cleveland, OH) sprang into action and decided to help its sibling museum with a… Continue Reading

Eleusyve Productions release award-winning film of their “Rite of Saturn” rock opera adaptation

Eleusyve Productions releases today its award-winning rock opera adaptation of Aleister Crowley’s “The Rite of Saturn.” This release concludes a twenty-year labor of love, adapting all seven of The Rites of Eleusis for the musical stage. The project began in… Continue Reading

New Picatrix translation announced by Penn State University Press

While there have been two English translations of the Picatrix in recent years—the two-volume set from Ouroboros Press (2002-2008) and various Lulu permutations by Christopher Warnock and John Michael Greer (2011-2018)—this edition from PSU’s excellent “Magic in History” series is… Continue Reading

Review: China Miéville’s “The Last Days of New Paris” …with Jack Parsons

China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris is a weird and wild alternative history set in a 1950 Paris where the Nazi occupation is ongoing, and an incident known as the S-Blast has transformed surrealist art and poetry into… Continue Reading