📚 Ghost Eaters by: Clay McLeod Chapman

Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab—again—she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their ho...

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The Hungry Moon - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Hungry Moon [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Ramsey Campbell, part of the Fiction Without Frontiers series I’ve read a few of Ramsey Campbell’s short stories, and I’ve liked them. The Hungry Moon is the first novel of his I’ve read. It is straight-up weird horror, with no overtures to the Lovecraftian […]

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Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers' Mystic Love Cult - The Hermetic Library Blog

Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by William Seabrook The extravagant title of this book is not hyperbole, although it inspires a suitably skeptical attitude toward the contents. Journalist and sometime occultist William Seabrook wrote it as a series of articles for American newspapers, all on the […]

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"It’s as though some deep malevolence was lurking under the surface like mushroom spores, and a heavy rain brought them all bursting forth at once." - The Hermetic Library Blog

It’s as though some deep malevolence was lurking under the surface like mushroom spores, and a heavy rain brought them all bursting forth at once. Lindsay King-Miller, The Z Word [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (nar. Mara Wilson), Publisher, Local Library] No related posts.

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Medusa's Web - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Medusa’s Web [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Tim Powers This occult magic-based thriller is set in Hollywood 2015, but its cultural epicenter is the 1922 film production of Salomé directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Zaminova. There is also a gothic mood, informed by overt references […]

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The Invention of Morel - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Invention of Morel [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Adolfo Bioy Casares, trans Ruth L C Simms, preface Jorge Luis Borges, introduction Suzanne Jill Levine, part of the New York Review Books Classics series. Although this novel is very short, it feels increasingly slow and frustrating toward the […]

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