This morning Keys Fine Art Auctioneers sold a pair of Crowley first editions from 1904: a copy of the Crowley/Mathers Goetia and a rare vellum edition of The Sword of Song. Judging from the photographs, both books have seen better… Continue Reading
Just in time for the 108th birthday of Israel Regardie (November 17, 1907 – March 10, 1985), PBS television’s Antiques Roadshow aired “Junk in the Trunk 5, Hour 2” on Sunday, November 15, featuring a segment in which two Regardie… Continue Reading
Emily E. Auger’s new book, Cartomancy and Tarot in Film: 1940–2010 (Intellect, 2016) is now available for pre-order in hardcover; an ebook edition is also expected. From the publisher’s website: In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the… Continue Reading
Here’s something to make bibliophiles with a penchant for occult titles drool – the latest offerings from the U.K.’s Cadeucus Books titles by Andrew Chumbley – founder of the Cultus Sabbati, a modern manifestation of the Witchcraft Andrew Chumbley, Manifestation… Continue Reading
The London Review of Books reports: “Dover Press has reissued William Seabrook’s 1934 memoir Asylum, an account of his self-committal to a mental hospital in an attempt to cure his chronic alcoholism. Seabrook, who committed suicide in 1945, is probably… Continue Reading
The New York Times Book Review published a review by Michael Wood of a new biography of Gnostic Catholic Church Saint (and namesake of the OTO Lodge in Baltimore, MD), William Blake, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake.… Continue Reading
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., one of the oldest and largest publishers of New Age, Metaphysical, Self-Help, and Spirituality books extant, announced the passing of its founder Carl Llewellyn Weschcke on Saturday, November 7. Their website states: “He passed peacefully on Saturday, November 7… Continue Reading
Many old school occultists are passionate bibliophiles with extensive collections of hard-to-find, often expensive-to-acquire physical books. In fact we present so devoted a market that many publishers pointedly create pricey, limited edition tomes with exotic leather bindings, gilt edges and… Continue Reading
In Haunted Crime Scenes, forensics expert Katherine Ramsland and paranormal investigator Mark Nesbitt examine murder implements, victims, killers and crime scenes that reportedly have supernatural components. The list includes such infamous crime sites as The Black Dahlia, Murder Swamp/Torso Killer,… Continue Reading
Smithsonian reports that the earliest known draft of the King James Bible has been unearthed at the University of Cambridge by American scholar Jeffrey Alan Miller. “Forty-seven translators and scholars produced the King James Bible, which was first published in 1611.… Continue Reading