Aleister Crowley and Iron Maiden hang out at number 13

Aleister Crowley and Iron Maiden hang out at number 13 in a list of “100 albums every science fiction and fantasy fan must experience once in this lifetime” at “100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 11-30”

“13. Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
A glorious slab of messianic fantasy metal from the band who once covered Colderidge with shredding, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son causes your mind’s eye to go LARPing. You’ll hang with Aleister Crowley, get a Shakespeare lesson, and fence Satan to death with Bruce Dickinson. – CL” [via]

Consider also:

  1. Passing mention of Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons in an interview about a Lovecraft documentary.
  2. Belladonna
  3. “Passing on beauty, delight and compassion is one of the wonders of the library and the bookshop.”
  4. “I watched, a leopard, stealthy in the corn, As if a tigress held herself above; My body quivered, eager to be torn, Stung by the snake of some convulsive love! The leopard changed his spots; for in me leapt The mate, the tiger. Murderous I sprang Across the mellow earth: my senses swept, One torrent flame, one soul-dissolving pang. How queenly bent her body to the grip! How lithe it slips, her bosom to my own! The throat leans back, to tantalise the lip:– The sudden shame of her is overthrown!”
  5. The Red Book by Carl Jung