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‘Betwixt God and the Devil’ by Richard Ward
Betwixt God and the Devil writer, Richard Ward, is certainly bewitched by the narrative spell of the muse throughout this book, fashioning a wonderful arch that elucidates the history of magic and witchcraft in the English county of Essex. Indeed, as the subtitle suggests, the book’s contents delve recommendably deep into Essex folk magic from the sixteenth century to the present day.
‘IO Typhon’ by Harper Feist
From within its pages beats the vibrant presence of the encounters from which this book was born. This typhonic pulse is as unmistakable in Harper Feist’s book as it is in the works of Austin Osman Spare, Andrew Chumbley, Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, or Gast Bouschet. IO Typhon is a donkey’s skull your thoughts feed with blood while reading.
‘IO Typhon’ by Harper Feist
IO TYPHON is an exemplary literary and theurgical text; a striking and original expression of contemporary esoteric thought and praxis that unfolds in eight distinctive movements. Its combination of subject (the draconian current) and context (that of ritual invocation) provides compelling subject matter.
