Last Summer, The University of Chicago Press published Thomas Shippey’s Laughing Shall I Die, a look at the “Jomsvikings,” a group better known in this country by their un-prefixed appellation. Basing his research on contemporary literature by Scandanavians as well… Continue Reading
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, an Autohagiography (eds. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant), Arkana Penguin, 1989. Review by Frater Kikhos ba-Midhbar, posted here with his permission. For the last twenty-nine years this book has resided on my shelf, unread. So many reasons… Continue Reading
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography, by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Princeton Lives of Great American Books Series). Review by Frater Kikhos ba-Midhbar, posted here with his permission. Strangely, this is an antagonistic biography. Lopez only agreed to write… Continue Reading
Weiser Antiquarian Booksellers recently published Catalogue 212: Spiritualism & Psychical Research. This includes such tasty little items as: ADARE, Viscount. Introduction by Earl of Dunraven. [ HOME, Daniel Dunglas ]. Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr. D. D. Home Holborn, UK: Privately… Continue Reading
With his Plymouth Brethren upbringing, Aleister Crowley was, in his own words, “deprived of all English literature but the Bible during the whole of his youth.” Crowley later bragged that even as a child he had developed the ability to… Continue Reading
Jason Miller recently big upped the first few publications from the folks at Czech Hermetics at his http://www.strategicsorcery.net. He sed: Czech Hermetics: Sexual Mysteries and Alchemical Tarot When you think Czech Occultism you probably think about John Dee & Edward Kelly… Continue Reading
It’s no secret that Aleister Crowley was a fan of the philosophical writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and certainly elements of the latter’s thought have echoes in former’s canon… for better and worse. The New York Times recently reviewed two new… Continue Reading
Released in September of last year, Congo Tales is a collection of photographs depicting the stories and legends of the Mbomo people. While the images are recorded by outsiders, the stories themselves are reenacted by local volunteers. It provides an… Continue Reading
A couple years ago, Atlas Obscura posted an article about book curses – curses laid upon books to afflict any that might dare purloin them. And let’s be honest, the concept likely seems attractive to many bibliophile occultists! Towards the… Continue Reading
Scarlet Imprint is announcing plans for a new publication this coming Fall, Trollrun by Nicholaj Frisvol. The publisher’s website says: “We are delighted to announce a new title by Nicholaj De Mattos Frisvold, which joins a host of other works… Continue Reading