Lightning Flash, No. 1, Issue No. 1. Summer 1984; Issue No. 2, Autumn 1984; Issue No. 3, Winter 1985; Issue No. 4, Spring 1985; Issue No. 5, Summer/Autumn 1985; Issue No. 6, Winter 1985/1986; No. 8, Autumn 1986; No. 9, Winter 1986/1987 and Issue No. 16, Spring 1989 ( Nine issues ).
London: Privately published, 1984 1989. First Editions. Softcover. Nine non-consecutive issues. Issue No. 1 is Large quarto stapled at upper corner. (A4, 8.25 x 11.75 inches) + Issues No. 2 through No. 6, No. 8, No. 9 and No. 16 are Octavo size, (6 x 8.25 inches). 14pp., 24pp, 24pp, 24pp, 32pp, 28pp, 32pp, 28pp, + 44pp. Issue No. 1: White wrappers illustrated and lettered in black on upper cover (which serves as a title page), stapled at upper corner, b&w illustrations. All others in coloured stapled wrappers lettered and illustrated in black both covers, illustrations etc. A group of non-consecutive issues of this London occult periodical of the mid-late 1980s. A typical occult journal of the time: each issue includes essays by various authors on subjects such as Crowley, Dion Fortune, practical magic, kabbalah, neo-pagan witchcraft, current events in the occult movement, etc. as well as illustrations, advertisements, and reviews. The majority of the contributors are anonymous or pseudonymous, but they apparently included some quite well-known individuals. Although not marked as such, from the collection of English bibliophile and Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper (and thus each issue almost certainly contains some reference to Aleister Crowley). Cheap fanzine-type production values. Otherwise very light wear and darkening to wrappers. Tight clean VG+ copies of this scarce periodical. Item #62485
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