Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare are goth for life at “Goth for life“, an article at the Guardian about Carl McCoy of Fields of the Nephilim. “He struggles to name any influences on their formative sound, offers scant details about his upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness (‘you didn’t have Christmas and you didn’t have [...]
“Dark Spirits: The Magical Art of Rosaleen Norton and Austin Osman Spare” by Nevill Drury, due late June, has been announced for pre-order via Salamander and Sons. “Strictly limited to 95 copies numbered by hand. More than 120 colour and black and white images. Fully bound in black leather with gilt title and device. [...]
Friday, December 23, 2011
“The White People and other Weird Stories, By Arthur Machen” by Tim Cumming is a review of a new collection of Golden Dawn initiate Arthur Machen, The White People and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics). “Machen was a bestseller in his day, a member of the Golden Dawn, and intimately acquainted with the spiritualism, occultism, [...]
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Tagged 1890s, algernon blackwood, arthur machen, aubrey beardsley, book, golden dawn, great god pan, horror story, hp lovecraft, key works, oscar wilde, sex magic, supernatural horror
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Friday, December 23, 2011
“Lunar Rover: An Interview With Steve Moore And Extract From Somnium” by Aug Stone is an interview with Steve Moore about his first novel Somnium: A Fantastic Romance [also] that includes mentions of Alan Moore and a cameo by Austin Osman Spare. The interview concludes with an excerpt from the book. “Alan Moore says it’s [...]
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Tagged alan moore, Austin Osman Spare, book, debut novel, goddess selene, israel regardie, lunar goddess, magic ritual, moon goddess, song to the moon, steve moore, strange attractor
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
You’ve probably already seen this before, but I was reminded of this today; and thought I’d post it here. This is Grant Morrison talking about his own work, including The Invisibles, and magick, with mentions of sigils and Austin Osman Spare and more. This is the entirety of Grant’s legendary 2000 lecture about Chaos [...]
Saturday, August 20, 2011
You may be interested in Two Grimoires [also] which is coming from Starfire Publishing, and available for pre-ordering in the US through J D Holmes. “This long-awaited title will at last be published in September 2011, and is now available for ordering ahead of publication. Two Grimoires is a sumptuous, sewn hardbound book, Octavo format, [...]
I don’t remember if I’d mentioned this before or not, but I was reminded about this volume recently which you may also have interest in checking out. I think I posted about this to the Fb page when there was a bunch of news about Austin Osman Spare a while back, but anyhow, it’s worth [...]
“One would hope that if [Zos Kia Cultus] is anything, it exists in that moment of contact between Spare’s work and the individual’s mind, open to its subversive influence; and then in the fruit of that communion, an inspiration and a creative response. The moment remains – the transmission continues.” An Interview with Gavin Semple [...]
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
“I have not me tragedy, no, not in this life! Yet, whether I have spewed their doctrines upon the tables of the Law or into the troughs, at least I have not cast away the flesh of dreams.” Anathema of Zos – Austin Osman Spare
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