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This revised and expanded second edition brings together the
uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious
philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories
in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his
lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first
time. Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction
from 1908 to 1922. Like their author, his stories are fun, smart,
witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in
places in which 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 accounts - if not the first - 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 that can stand with Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Frank Harris
considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale
ever written. This second edition adds several additional stories,
including the Qabalistic allegory Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum,
featuring the author's previously unpublished annotations.
Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.
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