 | Maldoror by Comte De Lautreamont
Buy new: £7.65 / Used from: £4.25 this prose poem is by turns hypnotic, sublime, and unaccountably disturbing. also, to my knowledge, it contains literature's only erotic scene between a human being and a man-eating shark.
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 | The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (Magunum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks)
Buy new: £13.03 / Used from: £7.99 rich, allusive and beautiful imagery.
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 | The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by H P Lovecraft
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £4.60 tell me child... have ye ever seen a SHUGGOTH...?! lovecraft's corpus is an unspeakable blasphemy against all that is sane and wholesome.
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 | Journey to the Orient (Peter Owen Modern Classic) by Gerard De Nerval
Buy used from: £24.49 luminous prose: exquisite retellings of arabian legends and folktales; plus arguably indispensable advice on the purchase of javanese slave girls. start with the last tale, and read it backwards.
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 | Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal
Buy used from: £9.50 symbolical precedes material existence. therefore the allegorical mountain connecting earth to heaven must also exist concretely... and this (sadly unfinished) book even tells us where to find it.
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 | Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Routledge Classics) by Frances Yates
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £7.85 my homunculus made me put it on the list. bruno's vision of a natural and magical philosophy was put to the stake as heresy in AD 1600. instead we got the enlightenment.
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 | Against Nature (Penguin Classics) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.03 a misanthropic aesthete in a doomed attempt to shun reality, by creating an artificial paradise of his own. a cautionary tale, or a manifesto, depending on your inclination.
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 | Strange Attractor Journal Three (Strange Attractor Anthology) by Mark Pilkington
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £12.97 dedicated to exploring the hinterlands of weird art and science. refreshingly at odds with a mainstream culture created and consumed by loathsome troglodytes who have never even seen a shuggoth.
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 | William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books by David Bindman
Buy new: £18.71 / Used from: £16.02 blake.
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 | The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion: A Study in Magic and Religion: A New Abridgement from the Second and Third Editions (Oxford World's Classics) by Sir James George Frazer
Buy used from: £10.76 endlessly fascinating and occasionally profound musings of a grumpy old nitwit.
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 | Shambhala by Nicholas, Roerich
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £10.72 roerich toured piously, tirelessy, and in the end fruitlessly, in search of the fabled mountain realm of rigden-jyepo. yet here undismayed, he still prophesies the coming golden dawn.
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