Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley, 12 October 1875 - 1 December 1947) was an English author, occultist, artist, and practicing magician, perhaps best known for the proliferation of works he produced in the esotericism and occult literature genres, as well as his personal life and sexual proclivities, issues which were very much taboo during his lifetime Aleister Crowley at Wikipedia.
Crowley has intersected with the topics of this wiki on several occasions, mostly in a fictional aspect, although he was for a time a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the organisation which was the (loose) inspiration for the Order of the Silver Twilight.
==In Fiction==
*Call of Cthulhu: Lam, the alien entity purported to have been in contact with Crowley in 1919, was incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos by the supplement Malleus Monstrorum.
*Demonbane: Master Therion, Grandmaster of the Black Lodge, was named after one of Aleister Crowley's aliases.
*Simon Necronomicon: H. P. Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley were said to have undergone a meeting of minds in Sumeria, both being described as prophets of a new age.
*White Darkness: in David A. McIntee's 1993 Doctor Who novel, Crowley once owned a copy of the forbidden Necronomicon, which contained illustrations by Nicholas Roerich.
==External Links==
*Aleister Crowley at Wikipedia
*Aleister Crowley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
*Aleister Crowley at Goodreads
==References==
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