First published c. 1904 in France, Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden is a hilarious and remarkably inventive collection of erotic prose and verse written by the influential libertine-mystic and magician Aleister Crowley. Sections of prose and verse are unified through a biographical frame narrative attributing them to a single author-poet-perpetrator. The first section, The Nameless Novel, was written primarily to amuse Crowley's convalescing wife, Rose Kelly. A scatological parody of erotic literature, it takes aim at the usual targets of libertine fiction and modern erotica but, at the same time, lampoons their (libertine fiction and erotica's) limitations and conventions through absurdity and hyperbole. The verse sections, which include black parodies of notable Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Algernon Charles Swinburne, were added to extend the literary forms in Crowley's earlier erotic work, White Stains (1898), which is also available from Birchgrove Press.

This definitive work on the occult’s “great beast” traces the arc of his controversial life and influence on rock-and-roll giants, from the Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath. When Aleister Crowley died in 1947, he was not an obvious contender for the most enduring pop-culture figure of the next century. But twenty years later, Crowley’s name and image were everywhere. The Beatles put him on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Rolling Stones were briefly serious devotees. Today, his visage hangs in goth clubs, occult temples, and college dorm rooms, and his methods of ceremonial magick animate the passions of myriad occultists and spiritual seekers. Aleister Crowley is more than just a biography of this compelling, controversial, and divisive figure—it’s also a portrait of his unparalleled influence on modern pop culture.

You are forewarned that ownership of this magickal tome is forbidden. Enter here and suffer the wrath of existence. This is the realm of the beast revealed through the sacred number of evolution 666, "Scraps from the masters table for all to find in the shadows of the gates of hell". The secrets revealed in this text transcend the concepts of mortal consciousness. No more potent a talisman has ever been granted to magickians and laymen alike. Therefore prepare yourself seeker, nomad, taker, to find the primrose of lucifers garden planted throughout the soilwork of these hallowed pages. Within this book you will find various occult subjects such as magick, ancient Egyptian knowledge, Tree of Life, taro, iching, The book of the law, numerology, etc. It is in essense a system of magick to be used in all areas of ritual, divination, invokation and evokation, consecration, and attributes for all of your personal knowledge. There are the secrets of stardguardians, being from ancient realms sent to guide humanity through the course of nature. The misery of the slave-Gods will not visit this hall of truth and all will be witnessed by the mark of the beast.

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'Mr. Skeffington' is a drama genre novel written by Elizabeth von Arnim. The story revolves around a spoiled woman named Fanny Trellis, who is a renowned beauty with many suitors. She loves her brother Trippy and would do anything to help him. Fanny learns that Trippy has embezzled money from his employer Job Skeffington. To save her brother from prosecution, Fanny pursues and marries the lovestruck Skeffington. Disgusted by the arrangement, in part because of his prejudice against Skeffington being Jewish, Trippy leaves home to fight in the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I.