Peter Hamilton-Giles: THE BARON CITADEL 1st Edition
1st 2015 254pp Three Hands Press. Illustrated by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles. Black cloth with designs and titling stamped in black. Fine in fine (protected) dustwrapper
Ltd. ed. 75/100. NB. The standard edition was actually 500 copies.
As the governor of the Dead and the burial ground, the Baron Samedi is one of the most distinctive and potent loa of Haitian Vodou. An imposing figure in black raiment, he is most often pictured as a corpse. His other magical domains, less discussed in esoteric literature, include disruption, obscenity and —importantly for the practicing sorcerer—not only the arts of Magic but the very fabric of which it is made.
Emergent from the spiritual crossroads of traditional Vodou and English witchcraft is the Baron Citadel, a working grimoire exploring the nature of magical time, Self, Other, and the essential power-rudiments of sorcery itself. Simultaneously an emanation of the Baron as the Lord of all Crossroads and an embodied magical chronologue through which the sorcerer gains access to the powers and directions of the Path, the Citadel is both magical theory and an embodied sorcerous architecture.

