Aleister Crowley: The Beast Demystified - Hardcover

Hutchinson, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851589678 ISBN 13: 9781851589678

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Dubbed the "wickedest man in the world" and the "Great Beast", Aleister Crowley has a terrifying reputation. Stories abound of drugs, orgies and magical ceremonies involving the sacrifice of babies. Many who associated with him died tragically, including his wife and child. This biography offers an agnostic view, concentrating not on Crowley the impenetrable mystic and bizarre character, but on Crowley the comprehensible man. The book presents the Great Beast as an accessible character: a flawed and egotistical individual who nonetheless left an ineradicable mark on the 19th century.

About this title

Review:

"An astonishing book . . . Crowley was one of the most infamous figures of the first half of the twentieth century" (Daily Mail)

"Hutchinson means what he says about demystifying his subject - by the biography's end there's not a stone left unturned" (The Scotsman)

"A level-headed reappraisal of a man whose fantasies were fuelled as much by self-publicity as by any real demonic contact" (Scotland on Sunday)

"Well informed and cool-headed . . . one can see that Crowley's own words would be of little use in conveying the facts of his life, which Hutchinson does admirably" (New York Times)

About the Author:

Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist. He lives on the Isle of Raasay.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1851589678
• ISBN 13: 9781851589678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224