Dave Evans: THE HISTORY OF BRITISH MAGICK AFTER CROWLEY
1st 2007 435pp Hidden Publishing trade paperback. NM.
Dr Dave Evans delves deeply into modern British history to present a serious, but accessible and fascinating work, based on his PhD, on developments in British magic after Aleister Crowley died. This project involved attending rituals and having meetings with some quite remarkable men and women, who are examined and given a voice in these pages, some of them for the first time. Topics covered include Aleister Crowley and Thelema, How many magicians there actually are in Britain, The claims of Amado Crowley to be Aleister's son, the work of Austin Osman Spare, Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian OTO, Blasphemy, Chaos Magick, Gerald Gardner, Ramsey Dukes, Alex Sanders, HP Lovecraft, Satanism, Cursing, The Left-Hand Path, creating the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, plus the work of Ronald Hutton, Dennis Wheatley, Dion Fortune, HP Blavatsky and others.