The new edition of Netherwood is being sold at silly prices on Amazon and elsewhere.
It is still available for £30 (plus p&p) at the Accumulator Press 'shop' on The Big Cartel here and for varying prices at the usual bookshops listed in previous posts. At the upcoming talks this month and next you can buy it from me for even less.
Thursday 28 June Whistler Chelsea's Greatest Artist here
Saturday 30 June The Haunted City: Modern Monsters and Urban Myths here
Thursday 12 July Whistler in Chelsea: A Guided Walk here
Thursday 24 July Decadent London here
JUST ADDED: Subterranean City: beneath the streets of London Friday 7 September details to follow.
In preparation for the Conway Hall talk I've been searching through some old newspapers online and coincidentally found a review of The Magic of Aleister Crowley by John Symonds from The Guardian of 13 April 1958, written by the renowned poet Stevie Smith.
She finds the book 'comical', but also notes 'how wretched [Crowley's magick] really is and with what horrid echoes from past centuries it dins on the mind.' 'To the author Crowley was an eccentric old gentleman, more comical than horrible, shrewd enough off the record, and well worth visiting, and cosseting ... In his retreat in Hastings, in the boarding-house called Netherwood, Crowley was a great attraction. His eyes stared, his ears stood out, he took drugs, swigged black market brandy and was long and spectral - in fact just what one wants in an English seaside boarding-house.'
