The Book of Forbidden Knowledge: New Edition!

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This is a special announcement!

The Book of Forbidden Knowledge inexplicably became my all time best seller years ago- it is a bric a brac, likely with multiple authors, and compiles material related to charms, talismans, divination, black magic, spirit-rapping, and other oddities. A few entries appear to be tongue in cheek (curing someone of a gambling addiction by whipping them with a piece of leather from an executioners' whip for example!), and is a very good read all in all. This improved new edition corrects a few errors in the original, is fully reillustrated, and uses a more professional format. I also dropped the price; Amazon has become a landscape of price undercuts by people releasing cheap, crappy editions and taking advantage of the new pricing system.

It is truly one of the most inexplicably strange works I have edited.

109 pages.

Grand Grimoire, Imperial Ritual of Magic: Now Available!

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This is a very exciting work; it combines segments and content from a half dozen sources, and was allegedly crafted by none other than Rosicrucian heavyweight Swineburne Clymer at the dawn of the 20th century. Despite the "grand grimoire" label most of the interior material comes from the Clavicle of Solomon and a variant of the Black Pullet and deals with magical talismans and rings- it also contains a section on mediumship via planchette. It was presumably used as a companion to lectures or lessons as every other page was initially blank, probably for note taking.

It represents a fairly modern "true" grimoire since the compiled material here is fundamentally similar in style and structure to works such as the Petit Albert and Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus.

89 pages.

Folk Magic, Superstition, and Charms: Now Available!

 

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This book is a miscellaneous compilation of many types of occult lore, revolving mostly around folk magic, simple charms, and superstition, including sections on talismans and summoning demons. It includes, as always, an expansive preface tying the material together, and a reading list with two and a half pages of additional works not referenced in the quotations of the volume itself, but for additional study.

It contains material from the Book of Forbidden Knowledge, Black Pullet, Petit Albert, Greater Key of Solomon, Clavicula Salomonis, Secrets of Black Arts!, Oriental Interpretation of Dreams, and dozens of others.

251 pages.

The Black Pullet: Now Available!

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This work never got its own entry either. Now in a proper format, this work primarily revolves around the usage of a series of magical talismans, as part of a larger story (Napoleonic in origin and era) in which the author has been saved by a Turkish mage from an angry group of Arabs. The author then is instructed in magic, including how to raise a hen which will create eggs made of gold.

The invocations and talismans are meant to be considered literal and the back story appears to have been used to justify the odd content. It should be noted that ascribing works to Napoleon, a Napoleonic soldier, or related things, was common for half a century thereafter due to his fascination with pre-anthropological ruin-diving.

82 pages.