The Black Magic Murders: Horrifying True Stories of Death and Devilry.
London: The Leisure Circle by Xanadu Publications, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 248pp. Black cloth gilt-lettered on spine, b&w frontispiece, list of sources. "True stories" of satanic murder and mayhem, reprinted from a variety of early publications. It includes an anonymous chapter on Aleister Crowley republished from "Crimes and Punishment" (1973-5), which the dustjacket blurb suggests was written by Colin Wilson. Contents include: Black Magic in Shakespeare Land (Charlie Walton) - Bernard O'Donnell; The Voodoo Sex Murder - John Dunning; The Dark Age Killer - Edwin T. Woodhall; The Tokoloshe Murders - Benjamin Bennett; The Satanic Incantation - Leonard Gribble; The Beast of the Apocalypse - 'Crimes and Punishment'; The Case of the Sorcerer's Sacrifice - Derick Goodman; '.Dead Men Working in the Canefields' - William Seabrook; Devilish Active, These German Kids! - John Dunning; The Original Bluebeard (Gilles de Rais) - Harold Dearden; The Night of Witchcraft - Rafael Sabatini; The Mexican Cult of Human Sacrifice - Bill Starr; Witches - John Dunning; In the Seance Room - H. Ashton Wolfe; The Voodoo World of a Mother Slayer - Richard Walton. Very light bumps to corners else appears "as new" thus near Fine in VG + dust jacket. (Dust jacket rear panel a bit rubbed with creasing at lower edge, now protected in mylar cover). Item #66837
ISBN: 9780947761578
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