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The Drug and Other Stories by Aleister Crowley : $5
The Drug and Other Stories : $5 : http://bit.ly/d1mI8l
This book now available from booksellers in the U.S., including at Powell’s where it is available for $5 flat.
What a great gift idea for your Secret Satan gift exchanges this winter holiday season!
The Drug and Other Stories by Aleister Crowley
Good news! In spite of what it might say on Amazon, The Drug and Other Stories has already shipped to a few lucky people and will soon be available again for purchase via Amazon.
[See also our post announcing this title]
This book is reported to be over 620 pages, with notes and sources at the back. The 49 stories published in this volume include: The Wake World, Thien Tao: The Synagogue of Satan, The Stone of the Philosophers, The Stratagem, and The Lost Continent. It is edited by William Breeze, with a foreword by he and David Tibet, and the book is dedicated to Kenneth Anger.
This is very exciting news which reveals that this very expensive new title will include a large amount of material including some that is rather hard to find.
More information, and purchase links for this title from Wordsworth Editions can be found here.
Golden Twigs by Aleister Crowley
Golden Twigs : $32 : http://amzn.to/bh8yzm
Eight tales by Crowley, dramatizing mythical and legendary themes drawn from J. G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough.
The Drug and Other Stories by Aleister Crowley
The Drug and Other Stories by Aleister Crowley : £2.99 : http://bit.ly/b5bIiX
With an introduction by William Breeze and a foreword by David Tibet.
This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875–1947). Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time.
Like their author, Crowley’s stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places he had lived and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the first World War. The title story ‘The Drug’ stands as one of the first—if not the first—accounts of a psychedelic experience. His ‘Black and Silver’ is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. ‘Atlantis’ is a masterpiece of occult fantasy, a dark satire that can stand with Samuel Butler’s Erewhon. Frank Harris considered ‘The Testament of Magdalen Blair’ the most terrifying tale ever written.
Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.
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