Category Archives: Dark arts

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

Windows to the Sacred
“An exploration of the esoteric”, starting Friday

The Wormwood Star
Curtis Harrington’s rare film tribute to (oc)cult artist Marjorie Cameron

13 books for 2013
Swordswomen, working boys, crypto-fascist poets, bohemians, Decadents, Surrealists, occultists…business as usual really.

13 books for 2013
Swordswomen, working boys, crypto-fascist poets, bohemians, Decadents, Surrealists, occultists…business as usual really.