<b>BOOKS OF THE BEAST</b>

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OCCULT: Those persons, places, things, ideas and theories that are Secret by Design, relating to, or dealing with supernatural influences, agencies, or phenomena. 2. Beyond the realm of human comprehension; inscrutable; metaphysical. 3. Available only to the initiate; secret. 4. Hidden from view; concealed. 5. Forbidden by convention.

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BOOKS OF THE BEAST

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For Aleister Crowley a book was a talisman. Like the magi of times past, he filled his books with magick and their every part right down to color, dimension, and price is symbolic. 'My scheme from the first,' he wrote 'was to create complexity and rarity.' He used magical techniques to grain literary success...

Timothy d'Arch Smith

From the editor: The Books of the Beast surveys the elaborate underworld of the book - from self-styled 'beast' Crowley, to Oxford's demonologist Montague Summers, an eccentric who was both credulous and erudite. We meet R A Caton, the unloved proprietor of the Fortune Press. Mr. d'Arch Smith was Caton's friend and compiled the definitive bibliography of this important press, which brought us Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin. We also read about Ralph Chubb, the lonely sexual prophet of a new aeon. Here too is a famous Edwardian actress, the lover of W B Yeats and Bernard Shaw, whom Ezra Pound claimed to be 'pregnant with mandrakes'.

For this new edition, the author adds a new chapter on Crowley and his 'incarnation' as Dr. Trelawney in Anthony Powell's novel-sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. We follow the beast's consuming interest in erotic literature to the secrets of the British Library Private case. In the process we learn a few secrets about Mr. d'Arch Smith and the strange forces that led him to this territory.

The Books of the Beast is essential reading for - students of the occult and all lovers of the byways of weird and wonderful literature.

Pages: 128, Import, UK
Special Interest: Occult, Bibliophile, Crowley, Grimoire, Secret Orders, History, Magick.

Our Price: $14.95

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