Posts tagged with ‘Aleister Crowley’

  • Esoterica

    My Favorite Martians

    A UFO Epistemology

    A UFO Epistemology

    Consumed by cancer in 1937 at the age of 46, the last scion of a faded aristocratic New England family, the horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft left one of America's most curious literary legacies. The bulk of his short stories appeared in Weird Tales, a pulp magazine devoted to the supernatural. But within these modest confines, Lovecraft brought dark fantasy screaming into the 20th century, taking the genre, almost literally, into a new dimension. Nowhere is this more evident than...
  • Articles and Essays, Esoterica

    H.P. Lovecraft’s Magick Realism

    A profile of Lovecraft's life and work

    A profile of Lovecraft's life and work

    Consumed by cancer in 1937 at the age of 46, the last scion of a faded aristocratic New England family, the horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft left one of America's most curious literary legacies. The bulk of his short stories appeared in Weird Tales, a pulp magazine devoted to the supernatural. But within these modest confines, Lovecraft brought dark fantasy screaming into the 20th century, taking the genre, almost literally, into a new dimension. Nowhere is this more evident than...