{"product_id":"the-drug-other-stories-aleister-crowley","title":"The Drug \u0026 Other Stories; Aleister Crowley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erevised and expanded second edition\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922. Like their author, his stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places in which he had lived, and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title story\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Drug\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estands as one of the first accounts — if not\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efirst — of a psychedelic experience. His\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack and Silver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlantis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a masterpiece of occult fantasy that can stand with Samuel Butler’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eErewhon\u003c\/i\u003e. Frank Harris considered\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Magdalen Blair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethe most terrifying tale ever written. This second edition adds several additional stories, including the Qabalistic allegory\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmbrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring the author’s previously unpublished annotations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Secret Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31717975031878,"sku":"430","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/8921\/4278\/products\/TheDrug_OtherStories_AleisterCrowley.jpg?v=1591177822","url":"https:\/\/www.thesecretbookstore.live\/products\/the-drug-other-stories-aleister-crowley","provider":"The Secret Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}