Category Archives: Dark arts

Secret Satan, 2022
You know what to expect by now, surely? Well, expect even more of it: this is our biggest year-end book selection yet.

22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?

22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?

Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields

Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields

Summer* reading list
A selection of beach reads – only some of them ironically so!

21 books for 2021
A selection of works with which to while away your second or third lockdown.

Secret Satan, 2019
From clean-lined architects to Dirty Helen Cromwell the potty-mouthed barkeep – let us join hands and make contact with the fabulous.

Secret Satan, 2019
From clean-lined architects to Dirty Helen Cromwell the potty-mouthed barkeep – let us join hands and make contact with the fabulous.

Adrift
Ironfoot Jack, Umm Kulthum, Jack Parsons, Harry Crosby… it’s a Strange Flowers Film Festival!

18 books for 2018
Three Marcels, two Nutters and a Sissi: imaginary lives and lives beyond imagining.

18 books for 2018
Three Marcels, two Nutters and a Sissi: imaginary lives and lives beyond imagining.

Secret Satan book list
More books than you can deal with, frankly.

Through the storm
A century since the “Witch of Kings Cross”, Rosaleen Norton, thundered into existence

Through the storm
A century since the “Witch of Kings Cross”, Rosaleen Norton, thundered into existence

Mysterious corners of shade
Occultist poet Berthe de Courrière, who died 100 years ago today

Places: a Turin trinity
A stroll through good and evil, light and shadow, life and death, genius and madness, heaven and hell.

Places: a Turin trinity
A stroll through good and evil, light and shadow, life and death, genius and madness, heaven and hell.

Places: (a bit of) Gustav Meyrink’s Prague
Three stations in the writer’s early life

Places: Crowley’s Berlin
The Great Beast witnesses the Weimar twilight

The jet propelled Antichrist at 100
“Waken, and do what you will”: Occultist/rocket scientist Jack Parsons, born in Pasadena in 1914

The jet propelled Antichrist at 100
“Waken, and do what you will”: Occultist/rocket scientist Jack Parsons, born in Pasadena in 1914

Waking the witch
A forthcoming documentary about Rosaleen Norton

Places: Clifton
In search of the Reverend Montague Summers

14 books for 2014
Books, books, books – dirty and otherwise

The Riddle
“Rampant within thy podex take this member, stiffer than a mast…”