Sean @ Paganarchy

David Rankine, author of many fine books including Becoming Magick, Climbing the Tree Of Life and Practical Planetary Magick (co-authored with the lovely Sorita D'Este) has written a very positive review of Liber Malorum.

Here's an excerpt of it:

Bernadette (or burn many if they are mounting up faster than your ability to pay them) is the patsy, the eye of reason exposed to the horned serpent selling sex, drugs, magick and music from the garden stall. She is the straight woman providing mundane rationality as a piece of malleable plasticine for the plethora of authors to tease into bizarre and fantastic shapes. This book is a literary psychedelic with special guest appearances from the good, the bad and the ugly.

I enjoyed this book and seriously suggest you give it a try.

Read the rest of the review on the the Avalonia website.

Go on.

hugs to all from Sean

What ho!

I just saw that the wonderful people at Freedom Press have published a review of Liber Malorum in their issue dated February 16th.

The reviewer writes:

The stories and poems of Liber Malorum quest variously into the realms of magic, witchcraft, anarchism, psychedelic drugs and sex. There are spiritual uprisings in the desert, rebellions in the groves and woods, pirates, criminals, faerie huggers, subversives queering from police cells, tricksters and shape shifters. Keep your eyes out too for the myriad of nuances, messages and codes throughout. This is the stuff of the underground cult classic.

I'm so chuffed it has been enjoyed! Read the full review here.

With that high note, I'm looking for other places to have Liber Malorum reviewed. If you can think of any, please let me know.

Hugs to all from Sean!

Good friend (and contributor to Liber Malorum) Henry Lauer wrote an article in 2003 titled Odin Has a Light Sabre. I've just re-read it for the first time since its launch and still find it every bit as delightful.

At the end of The Return of the Jedi (which I will refer to as Return from here on in), Luke Skywalker, the Jedi knight, finds himself confronting his dark Jedi father (Darth Vader) and Vader's malignant master, Emperor Palpatine. Palpatine tries to defeat Luke by exhorting him to "give into the hate" that dwells within him. Here we see the fundamental conflict of the Odinnic magician, of the child of Wodanaz. The struggle for Jedi (which are equivalent to magicians) like Luke and his father is to find equilibrium between light and darkness, between Asgard and Hel. Each has an important place in the whole, but when one dominates disaster results.

Read the full article here.

Ooh, I just found this semi-groovy site StoryCode. Forgive me if it's already old news now, but I've just discovered it. Apparently you tell it what sort of books you have enjoyed and it uses some intricate formula to determine which other books you'll like and it makes fairly comprehensive recommendations. Well someone on StoryCode has coded Liber Malorum.

The good news is that Liber Malorum has been given a 5 star Rating! ... but it has only 2 ticks for readability

Liber Malorum on StoryCode

Link: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Policy_Timeline.htm

A fascinating and well-researched history of the prohibition of drugs, psychedelics and other intoxicants.

Freedom of the mind is just as important as freedom of the body. It is outrageous that anyone can stop explorers from conducting personal psychological research in the magical realms of mind-altering substances.

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Policy_Timeline.htm