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Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & Supernatural). Aleister Crowley241 руб
This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875 1947). With an Introduction by William Breeze and a Foreword by David Tibet. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime. Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Like their author, Crowley s stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. Most of the rest appear here for the first time. The title story The Drug stands as one of the first if not the first accounts of a psychedelic experience. 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. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy, a dark satire that can stand with Samuel Butler s Erewhon. His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories. Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written. 2010 |