The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult

Selected by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult contains stories that will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These are the stories that reveal hidden truths, inspire forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation in a fictionalized form. 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 George Bulwer-Lytton, and Bram Stoker. Each story includes commentary by Lon Milo DuQuette as well as interesting biographical details about the hidden lives of these late 19th and early 20th century authors.