The Weiser book of horror and the occult
Subtitle: hidden magic, occult truths, and the stories that started it all
By: edited and introduced by Lon Milo DuQuette
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781578635726
Subjects: Paranormal fiction; Horror tales
Description: "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 one-of-a-kind 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  Bulwer-Lytton, 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..."--

"Selected by one of the leading occultist of today, these are the stories that will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These are the stories that reveal hidden truths, inspire occult pursuits, and divulge the secrets of ritual in a fictionalized form"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The house and the brain / Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton; title: Casting the runes / Montague Rhodes James; title: Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; title: An inhabitant of Carcosa / Ambrose Bierce; title: No. 252 Rue M. le Prince / Ralph Adams Cram; title: The testament of Magdalen Blair / Aleister Crowley; title: The Messenger / Robert W. Chambers; title: The Ring of Thoth / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; title: A dream of red hands / Bram Stoker; title: Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe; title: At the home of Poe / Frank Belknap Long, Jr.; title: The alchemist / H.P. Lovecraft; title: Dickon the devil / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; title: The white people / Arthur Machen; title: The sea lure / Dion Fortune.