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The Drug and Other Stories by Aleister Crowley (Paperback, 2010)
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Aleister Crowley: The Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural) [2010] paperback Edited, with an Introduction, by William Breeze. Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery.
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Edited, with an Introduction, by William Breeze. 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 fifty-two 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherWordsworth Editions LTD
ISBN-139781840226386
eBay Product ID (ePID)93397508
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Drug and Other Stories
AuthorAleister Crowley
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
GenreHorror
Number of Pages656 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight384g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAleister Crowley
Series TitleTales of Mystery & the Supernatural
EditorWilliam Breeze
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 14 Jan, 2025
One for the collector
I was always a fan of Mr Crowley's two novels (Moonchild & Diary of a fiend!) but not so keen on this volume of 52 short stories. I think it's just that his style of writing doesn't really suit the short story format. His tendencies to self-aggrandizement, amateurish wit and baffling riddles, acceptable as background to an extended plot, become tiresome when repeated endlessly inside stories lasting just two or three pages. Whatever, not for me. Maybe one for the completist.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Mar, 2024
The Drug
Great Book. (Aleister Crowl)Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
