John Griogair BellKlingsor’s Last Summer
https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/03/06/klingsors-last-summer/
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“This world is a very strange place.”
https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/17/this-world-is-a-very-strange-place/
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/01/19/the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet/
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The Thirteenth Voyage
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/06/09/the-thirteenth-voyage/
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Beasts
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/05/12/beasts/
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Beasts - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Beasts [Amazon, Local Library] by John Crowley. (n.b. included in Otherwise: Three Novels [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library]) When I started reading John Crowley’s 1976 novel Beasts, I felt inadequately informed by the manimal vein of science fiction. I have not read Wells’ Island of Dr. Moreau nor […]
Damned
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/02/21/damned/
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Damned - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Damned [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Chuck Palahniuk, book 1 of the Damned series Over the decades since the publication of Fight Club in 1996 Chuck Palahniuk has mastered the format of the short, self-contained novel, readable in a single longish plane flight. So now, it seems, he’s embraced ambitions for […]
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/02/10/the-sunken-land-begins-to-rise-again/
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The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by M John Harrison M. John Harrison’s 2020 novel The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is firmly in the trajectory established by his earlier books The Course of the Heart and Signs of Life. Like […]
The Woman Between the Worlds
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/01/10/the-woman-between-the-worlds/
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The Woman Between the Worlds - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Woman Between the Worlds [Amazon, Bookshop, Local Library] by F Gwynplaine MacIntyre F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre’s The Woman Between the Worlds is weird horror set in 1898 and featuring luminaries of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as central characters in a tale of invading aliens from another dimension. The portrayals of […]
The Hearing Trumpet
The Hearing Trumpet - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Hearing Trumpet [Amazon (Penguin), Amazon (NYRB), Amazon (Exact Press), Bookshop (NYRB), Libro.fm (Naxos), Publisher (NYRB), Local Library (Exact Change), Local Library (NYRB)] by Leonora Carrington Leonora Carrington is typically identified with the Surrealist movement, and her novel The Hearing Trumpet does reflect on the exoteric aspects of that […]
October Ferry to Gabriola
https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/09/27/october-ferry-to-gabriola/
October Ferry to Gabriola - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews October Ferry to Gabriola [Amazon, Abebooks, Publisher, Local Library] by Malcolm Lowry October Ferry to Gabriola is sort of “Malcolm Lowry’s Last Novel,” as it says on the cover of my copy of the first edition. It was posthumously issued, as edited by his widow Margerie from the MSS. It’s hard to […]