Blurt magazine's Robert Dean Lurie writes in his 9/13/10 review that Perdurabo "achieves the alchemical feat of transmogrifying a maligned demon into...if not a saint then some kind of mad prophet worth a second look." [An abbreviated version of the review will hit news stands later this month in the print edition of Blurt.]


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August was a very busy month, and I haven't had time to post much lately ( Read more... )

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Holy crap, Mike Portnoy has left Dream Theater.

Evidently he needed a break from the band, the rest of the guys didn't want to take a break, so Mike--rather than holding them back--decided to resign so all concerned could do as they willed.

Ivan Barnett's 1949 version of Edgar Allan Poe's classic The Fall of the House of Usher was an indie movie filmed at Netherwood House in Hastings not long after Aleister Crowley's death there on December 1, 1947. The film reputedly includes Crowley's painting The Cuboid as set dressing. Curious, I ordered a copy from Turner Classic Movies. I ( Read more... )

The latest episode of Thelema NOW! was posted on September 2:Author Dr. Richard Kaczynski discusses the new expanded edition of Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley. David Tibet, founder of Current 93, says, "This is the one biography that is absolutely necessary for anyone who wishes to know more about one of the most creative, seminal, and ( Read more... )

Thanks to brandywilliams for posting on her blog the following picture of Perdurabo on display front and center in the window of the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco!

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If you've been waiting to pick up a copy of the new edition of Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, now may be the time to act: The initial print run has pretty much sold out after just two weeks (!). A second printing has been ordered, which will include additional blurbs on the dust jacket and at the front of the book. So if you want a ( Read more... )

Pro sound engineer Oz Fritz blogs about the new edition of Perdurabo,A prominent client recently suggested assembling a library of all the classic books on Metaphysics. A vast compendium of all the world's knowledge on various arcane and occult subjects housed in one building-to give the peasants something to try and bring down ( Read more... )

Here's a brand-new endorsement for Perdurabo from University of Gothenburg associate professor Henrik Bogdan, a historian of religions specialising in new religious movements, western esotericism and Freemasonry:
This is truly an impressive biography of one of the most remarkable thinkers of the twentieth century. In this revised edition of ( Read more... )