{"product_id":"the-drug-and-other-stories-tales-of-mystery-the-supernatural","title":"The Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery \u0026 the Supernatural)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith an Introduction by William Breeze and a Foreword by David Tibet. This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet  writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875 1947). Crowley was a successful critic  editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922  and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume  only thirty were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time. Like their author  Crowley s stories are fun  smart  witty  thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places he had lived and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris  Edwardian London  pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the first World War. The title story The Drug stands as one of the first if not the first accounts of a psychedelic experience. His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy  a dark satire that can stand with Samuel Butler s Erewhon. Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written. Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44950223388725,"sku":"ByrdShop_1840226382","price":62.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781840226386.jpg?v=1770101892","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-drug-and-other-stories-tales-of-mystery-the-supernatural","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}