The Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the

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The Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)

With an Introduction by William Breeze and a Foreword by David Tibet. This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875 1947). Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time. Like their author, Crowley s stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places he had lived and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the first World War. The title story The Drug stands as one of the first if not the first accounts of a psychedelic experience. His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy, a dark satire that can stand with Samuel Butler s Erewhon. Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written. Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.
Country USA
Manufacturer Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781840226386
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781840226386
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)

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