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...
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,...
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...
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...