Hi everyone,
I thought this could be interesting for a number of people on
TLO:
A collection of Aleister Crowley's stories has just been published for Wordsworth Editions, with an introduction by William Breeze and a foreword by David Tibet. The book collects many stories which would be otherwise almost impossible to find and it's unbelievably cheap for a 600 pages book!
"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."
New Crowley Book: The Drug And Other Stories :: lashtal.com :: Home of The Aleister Crowley Society
10-05-2010
Aleister Crowley, The Drug and Other Stories
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