Occult Bibliography and Links.
Agnew, Louisa. An Open Invitation to the Chymical Wedding, being a Modest Prologomenon to a Fuller Revelation of the Hermetic Mystery. Meant as an introductory text to a much longer, lifetimes work by her father, Henry Agnew, all copies were burnt in the early 1840's. Henry Agnew's tome never saw the light of day either. From The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke, 1989, Picador.
Bac, M. de. Yellow Dragon. 1899. A collection of fantastic short stories in English. From 'The Devil's Manuscript' by S. Levett-Yeats in Gaslit Nightmares 2, edited by Hugh Lamb.
Castries, Thibaut de. Megapolisomancy: A New Science of Cities. From Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness, 1977
Causabon, Reverend Edward. Key to All Mythologies. From George Eliot, Middlemarch. See also the Causabon family line in Dee and Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
Coccaius, Merlinus. de Patria diabolorum (On the Country of the Devils). From the Library of St. Victors in Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Crouch, Nathaniel. Kingdom of Darkness. From 'Casting the Stones' by John Pocsik, in Over the Edge, edited by August Derleth.
Dee, Dr. John. The Diaries of John Dee. Edited by Edward Fenton, Day Books, 1998. Containing many accounts of writings, book losses, the Prague visits and the concern for his library.
Eco, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum. 1989, Secker and Warburg. A book that, laudably, manages to contain only one single reference to H.P.Lovecraft.
Ghilardi, Erich. Die Rasse Vorgrade (The Pretending Race). A populist non-fiction text, unappreciated by believers and non-believers alike. From Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy Collins, Penguin USA, 1989. Contains continual refence to The Aegrisomnia (unknown author).
Guingolfum, M. Ingeniositas invocandi diabolos et diabolas (The Method of Invoking Demons, male and female). From the Library of St. Victors.
Henquist-Gordon, Edgar. The Soul of Chaos. Late 1930's, one of four privately printed last works of fiction. From The Dark Demon by Robert Bloch.
Ibn Khanu. Death and Resurrection. Unknown date, ancient Arabian necromancy and magic. From 'The Secret of the Vault' in Legends for the Dark, edited by Peter Haining.
James, Geoffrey. 1984,1994. The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee. Llewellyn Publications.
Karswell. History of Witchcraft. From M.R.James' 'Casting the Runes' in More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. Not to be confused with The History of Witchcraft by Montague Summers, 1925, which is, frankly, less readable, less effective and written from a totally opposite point of view - perhaps even in reaction to Karswell's work. Also see Karswell's article 'The Truth of Alchemy'.
Kingsland, Jason J. The Unwritten Book. Nottingham, privately printed, 1938. Occult philosophy and bibliomancy. A collection of aphorisms, theories and possibly spells. Influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Fort. From 'Ex Libris' by John Shire, in Enigmatic Tales 10, Autumn 2000.
Kraft, Fellowes. An unfinished ms./novel about John Dee, Giordano Bruno et al. From Aegypt by John Crowley, 1987, Gollancz.
Maroney, Tim.. The Book of Dzyan. Chaosium. 1998. Includes extracts and the 1885 report from the Society for Psychical Research. An excellent summary and introduction to the central work of Theosophy.
McIntosh, Christopher. 1985. The Devil's Bookshelf. Aquarian Press.
Mogila, Catechism (also Confession of Faith), Kief, 1645. Written by the 17th century Bishop Mogila, only two copies are extant (the Holy Synod confiscated and destroyed all others in 1840 under the reign of Nicholas I) in Petersburg Public Library and the Kief Petercersk Laura, library of the Kief Monastery. One variant edition with an additional 18 pages of Demon Summonings, was found in Kursk, south-central Russia.
Spence, Lewis. 1920s.The Encyclopedia of the Occult. Reprinted Bracken Books, 1994.
Terre, Lucian de. The True History of the World. 1789, English, four volumes, occult philosophy and history. One copy in the British Library which disappeared in 1862, possibly to the occultist Jacob Harkender. May have been lost in a fire at some later date. From The Werewolves of London by Brian Stableford, Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Torchia, Aristide. De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis (The Book of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows). Venice, 1666, black leather folio in the Venetian style, no title, five raised bands on spine, golden pentacle on cover, 160 pgs, 9 full page woodcuts. Of exceptional rarity, only three copies are know; Fargas Library, Sintra, Portugal; Coy Library, Madrid, Spain (engraving 9 missing) and Morel Library, Paris, France. From The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Harvill, 1996.
Unknown author. The Delomelanicon (To Summon/Illuminate the Shadows). Reputed to be 18,000 years old, possibly containing the original drawings found in the Book of the Nine Doors by Torchia. Included in an incomplete inventory of the library at Alexandria in 646AD. Quoted in the Corpus Hermeticum. From The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Harvill, 1996. This text joins the other pre-human/pre-historic texts like Blavatskys, The Ethics of Ygor and the Miskatonic Stone Library.
Unknown author. The Aegrisomnia (Dreams of a Fevered Mind). Large volume with metal hasps and an arabesque lock, in Latin and some Greek, contains tables, diagrams, "non-Euclidean geometric formulas". Resembles the Voynich Manuscript a little. From Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy Collins, Penguin USA, 1989.
Unknown author. The Ethics of Ygor. Unknown date, Latin, multi-volumed, occult cosmology. Possibly a non-human text originally. From The Great White Space by Basil Copper, 1974.
Alchemy, Oswald Croll and Nature of Signatures.