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The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult - Hidden Magic Occult Truths and the Stories That Started It All - cover

The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult - Hidden Magic Occult Truths and the Stories That Started It All

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Montague Rhodes James, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Ambrose Bierce, Ralph Adams Cram, Aleister Crowley, Robert W. Chambers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Belknap Long, H.P. Lovecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen, Don Fortune

Publisher: Weiser Books

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Frightful fiction by masters from Lovecraft to Stoker to Crowley to Poe.   Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to the Devil himself, this one-of-a-kind volume includes selections from:   Aleister Crowley * Ambrose Bierce * Arthur Machen *Edgar Allan Poe * Robert W. Chambers * Ralph Adams Cram * H.P. Lovecraft * Dion Fortune * Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton *Bram Stoker   As Lon Milo DuQuette writes in his introduction, horror takes its time. It creeps in, seeps in, and lingers. These stories will stay with you, biting at your heels from the shadows. Don’t say we didn’t warn you…
Available since: 10/01/2014.
Print length: 354 pages.

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