Aleister Crowley's notorious book of risqu verse was clandestinely published in Amsterdam in 1898 and of the hundred copies that were imported into England, only a handful were spared destruction by the British Government. Inspired by Psychopathia Sexualis, Richard Krafft-Ebing's...
Branded "the most terrible man in England" in the 1920s, Aleister Crowley enjoyed a measure of notoriety in his lifetime that few would be able to match. White Stains, a collection of Crowley's poetry praised by W.B. Yeats, published in paperback for the first time, has been...
White Stains, Aleister Crowley's notorious book of risqu verse, was clandestinely published in Amsterdam in 1898, and of the hundred copies that were imported into England, only a handful were spared destruction by the British Government. Inspired by Psychopathia Sexualis,...
From the mouth of Mr. Crowley: "My essential spirituality is made manifest by yet another publication, which stands as a testimony of my praeterhuman innocence. The book is called White Stains and is commonly quoted by my admirers as evidence of my addiction to every kind of...