In my historical research into Aleister Crowley, the Golden Dawn, and Western esotericism, one figure keeps turning up like the proverbial bad penny, a horrible car-crash from which you just can’t look away: Ann Odelia Diss Debar. From her spook… Continue Reading
Aleister Crowley’s silk robe and dagger, well-known from his 1934 Your Interest in Magick photo, were auctioned today by Bloomsbury House. The robe realized £11,000 ($17,272), while the jambiya fetched £10,000 ($15,702). That is a total of £21,000, or nearly… Continue Reading
HBO has announced that a new documentary on Scientology is in development based on Pulitzer-prize winner Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Knopf, 2013). And they’ve prepared by hiring 160 lawyers to review the film.… Continue Reading
ABC’s New Orleans affiliate WGNO recently interviewed Vodou practitioner, author and artist Sallie Ann Glassman about her friendship with comedian Joan Rivers. This interview formed the basis of a three-minute news segment, but the interview is also viewable in three… Continue Reading
Aleister Crowley’s silk robes and Middle Eastern dagger from the well-known Your Interest in Magick photo session (shown above) are part of Bloomsbury House’s December 11 auction. Drewatt’s & Bloomsbury Auctions describes the dagger as: A Middle Eastern dagger (Jambiya)… Continue Reading
Edmund B. Lingan’s The Theatre of the Occult Revival: Alternative Spiritual performance from 1875 to the Present was just released by Palgrave Macmillan (on November 19, says Amazon). According to the publisher’s website: Based on field research and archival study,… Continue Reading
A new adaptation of the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell is coming to FX as a miniseries. This will be the second live-action version of the book,which imagines the Whitechapel Murders as told from… Continue Reading
A previously unpublished occult novel by surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) has just been published by Pennsylvania State University. I Saw Water makes her second novel available for the first time, along with a selection of her other writings and… Continue Reading
The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult is a 352-page anthology of classic horror and occult fiction hand-picked, edited, and introduced by Lon Milo DuQuette, US Deputy Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis. Religion and spirituality website Patheos calls… Continue Reading
Anyone interested in occultism in New Zealand, the Golden Dawn in the antipodes, or the Whare Ra Temple of the GD in particular, will want to check out Georgina White’s booklet Dr. Robert Felkin: Magician on the Borderland (MTG Hawkes… Continue Reading