{"product_id":"drug-and-other-stories-w10","title":"Aleister Crowley: The Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery \u0026 The Supernatural) [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited, with an Introduction, by William Breeze. Foreword by David Tibet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Drug\u003c\/em\u003e stands as one of the first - if not the first - accounts of a psychedelic experience. His \u003cem\u003eBlack and Silver\u003c\/em\u003e is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. \u003cem\u003eAtlantis\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece of occult fantasy, a dark satire that can stand with Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Frank Harris considered \u003cem\u003eThe Testament of Magdalen Blair\u003c\/em\u003e the most terrifying tale ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crowley, Aleister \u0026 Breeze, William \u0026 Tibet, David \u0026 Davies, David Stuart","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49588067139923,"sku":"XV81840226386","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":42059457331385,"sku":"9781840226386","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/crowley-aleister-breeze-william-tibet-david-davies-david-stuart-aleister-crowley-the-drug-and-other-stories-tales-of-mystery-the-supernatural-2010-paperback-59444384923987.jpg?v=1728710765","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/drug-and-other-stories-w10","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}