Category Archives: Dark arts
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.
Dark Spirits
“Both were influcenced by witchcraft and the occult tradition of western magic, both utilised trance states, and both believed that the realm of the gods had its own intrinsic existence…”
Dark Spirits
“Both were influcenced by witchcraft and the occult tradition of western magic, both utilised trance states, and both believed that the realm of the gods had its own intrinsic existence…”
