The Demon Lover

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Book Details

Pages

288 Pages

Size

5.5 x 8.5

Format

Trade Paperback

Pub. Date

11/01/2010

ISBN

978-1-57863-492-7

Publisher

Red Wheel Weiser

Authors

  • Foreword by Diana L. Paxson

  • Author Dion Fortune

    Dion Fortune (1891-1946), founder of The Society of the Inner Light, is recognized as one of the most luminous figures of 20th-century esoteric thought. A prolific writer, pioneer psychologist, powerful psychic, and spiritualist, she dedicated her life to the revival of the Western Mystery Tradition. She was also a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, whose members included at various times such people as A.E. Waite, Aleister Crowley, and W.B. Yeats.

The Demon Lover was first published in 1927, the same year as H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu. Dion Fortune was among a generation of occult horror writers that formed popular culture’s obsession with secret societies, vampires, demons, ritual magick, and dark powers lurking in the shadows. What sets Fortune apart from so many of her contemporaries is her deep knowledge of the inner workings of magickal orders, rites, and practices, and her own freethinking on occult subjects, demonstrated in the classic Psychic SelfDefense and The Mystical Qabalah.
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