description: "I saw my first original Austin Osman Spare painting hanging above the seething bookshelves of Atlantis, the occult bookshop that I spent my late teens lurking inside. In fact there were several of his paintings and I could not believe my eyes. Until then I had only been aware of his name and had been conscious of seeing the recurring and hauntingimage of “PAN”, which was actually a section of the late pastel called “The Vampires Are Coming.” This image was widely used in the seventies on several occult type book jackets and was a key figure in the promotion of the eclectic magazine series ‘Man, Myth and Magic"
title: Austin Osman Spare: Artist, Occultist, Sensualist