Author and grimoire practitioner Jake Stratton-Kent passed away Monday night, after a long stint in the hospital. There are many tributes out there about Jake, including this one from Scarlet Imprint and others that I hope will see broader dissemination later. My own words are going to be largely inadequate…

Until recently, the most comprehensive analysis on British magical practitioners and their activities, clients, and practices — which we might call cunning folk or service magicians — was Owen Davies’ Popular Magic. Davies’ work is excellent in some respects, but it covers the modern era more comprehensively and on occasion…

I hope all of my readers are happy, healthy, and warm. As of this moment, I’m with my family trying to dodge some sort of dice-based game while I blog. As part of my radical plan to promote events before they happen, you can attend my Zoom talk on the…

Today we’ll examine a new book from Black Letter Press, the Enchiridion Leonis Papae, as translated by Paul Summers Young. This has been a hard review to write, because if there’s one grimoire that doesn’t thrill me, it’s the Enchiridion — a word meaning simply “manual” or “handbook,” which I…

Pictured above are Black Letter Press’s edition of the Enchiridion, and Joe Peterson’s Liber Trium Animarum. Both have been added to the slowly-growing review pile, with the Enchiridion next. We have a good number of upcoming releases. Hadean Press is taking pre-orders for David Rankine’s Grimoire Encyclopedia: The Grimoire Encyclopaedia…

Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright have been working with Penn State Press on a variety of works providing both magical texts and historical documents dealing with the same topics, mainly from Britain in the 16th century. …

Today we’ll take a look at the latest lapidary, or book regarding the magial properties of stones: Revelore Press’s The Mirror of Stones: Speculum Lapidum Book III, An Astrological Lapidary, written by Camillo Leonardi and translated by Margherita Fiorello. Camillo Leonardi was a Pesaro-based doctor and astrologer who had his…

It’s autumn here! The Book of Four Occult Philosophers page proofs are complete; I just need to complete the index file now. The book seems to be about the same length as Oberon — the introduction is slightly longer, which might push it over the page count. Next up is…