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A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
£9.99
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Literary Hauntings (paperback) by R.B. Russell, Rosalie Parker and Mark Valentine
£29.99
Paperback edition
With additional contributions from
Mike Ashley, Peter Bell, Gina Collia, John Howard, Marcelle Mapsby,
Jim Rockhill, Brian J. Showers and Fran Weighell
Literary Hauntings identifies and describes the real-life locations that have inspired the best fictional ghost stories of Britain and Ireland. Notable examples are the Suffolk beach where M.R. James set his terrifying ‘ “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” ’, and the ruins of the Scottish mansion featured in Margaret Oliphant’s classic ‘The Open Door’.
This comprehensive gazetteer, consisting of 267 entries by experts and exponents in the genre, identifies the building in Dublin that inspired Joseph Le Fanu’s story ‘The House by the Churchyard’, and the canals where Elizabeth Jane Howard’s eerie ‘Three Miles Up’ is set. Both classic and contemporary ghost stories are included.
Literary Hauntings is designed to help readers track down landscapes, monuments, cities, towns and villages that have haunted writers of ghost stories for at least the last two hundred years. The gazetteer is also a celebration of the insight and craft that goes into writing a really good ghost story, a genre that is still sometimes overlooked today.
The Aleister Crowley Collection
£34.99
This exquisite five-volume box set comprises of some of the most renowned works of Aleister Crowley, a legendary figure in the world of occultism who has had a profound impact on modern esotericism.
This collection offers a glimpse into the enigmatic mind of Crowley, a leading figure in the early 20th century occult movement. Crowley's teachings and practices were heavily influenced by Western esotericism, including elements of Kabbalah, alchemy, and astrology, as well as Eastern mysticism. He believed in the power of individual will to achieve spiritual transformation and sought to create a new form of religion based on these insights which he named Thelema.
These five paperback volumes bring together his fiction, poetry and spiritual philosophy, presented with striking cover designs and insightful introductions. Together they offer a wonderful way to truly understand his teachings.
Includes:
• The Diary of a Drug Fiend: Fiction inspired by Crowley's own experimentation with drugs.
• Moonchild: A novel involving a magical war between magicians over an unborn child.
• The Book of Lies: An enigmatic occult text exploring magick, meditation, divination, and the nature of the universe.
• The Book of the Law and Liber 777: Two texts forming the basis of Crowley's spiritual philosophy, Thelema.
• Clouds Without Water and White Stains: Two of his esoteric poetry collections in one volume.
This box set is a must-have for fans of Crowley's work and those interested in the occult and Crowley's magick philosophy.
The Castle Of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
£12.99
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness.
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