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

by Lon Milo DuQuette (Editor)

Overview

Horror Takes Its Time

Looking for a thoughtful fright? Or perhaps a frightful thought? Packed with stories selected by one of today's leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths, inspire forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation in the guise of fiction. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to Satanism, this oneofakind 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 George BulwerLytton
• Bram Stoker

As DuQuette writes in his introduction, horror takes its time. It creeps in, seeps in, and lingers. These stories will take you hours to read, but they will stay with you, biting at your heels from the shadows, eternally. Don't say we didn't warn you...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578635726
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Lon Milo DuQuette is a bestselling author and lecturer on such topics as magick, tarot, and the Western mystery traditions. He is currently US Deputy Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orentis and is on the faculty of the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY and the Maybe Logic Academy. Among his many books, he is the author of My Life with the Spirits, Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, and Tarot of Ceremonial Magick. He lives in Costa Mesa, CA, with his beautiful wife Constance.Visit him on the web at: www.lonmiloduquette.com.

Table of Contents

Horror Takes Its Time, an Introduction Lon Milo DuQuette xi

1 The House and the Brain Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton 3

2 Casting the Runes Montague Rhodes James 43

3 Luella Miller Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 67

4 AN Inhabitant of Carcosa Ambrose Bierce 83

5 No. 252 Rue M. ie Prince Ralph Adams Cram 89

6 The Testament of Magdalen Blair Aleister Crowley 105

7 The Messenger Robert W. Chambers 135

8 The Ring of Thoth Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 175

9 A Dream of Red Hands Bram Stoker 195

10 Ligeia Edgar Allan Poe 207

11 At the Home of Poe Frank Belknap Long, Jr. 225

12 The Alchemist H.P. Lovecraft 227

13 Dickon the Devil Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 237

14 The White People Arthur Machen 249

15 The Sea Lure Dion Fortune 291