Category Archives: Dark arts
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…”
Dress-down Friday: Diane de Rougy
A captivating Cantabrigian vision
Strange Flowers 