The Drug and Other Stories: Second Edition (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural)

This revised and expanded second edition brings 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. Crowley 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. The title story The Drug stands as one of the first accounts - if not the first - of a psychedelic experience.His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre.Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy that can stand with Samuel Butler’s Erewhon.Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen B