Item #66837 The Black Magic Murders: Horrifying True Stories of Death and Devilry. Occult Crime, R. G. J., authors including Colin Wilson Bernard O'Donnell, John Dunning, Edwin T. Woodhall, Benjamin Bennett, Leonard Gribble, Derick Goodman, William Seabrook, Harold Dearden, Rafael Sabatini, Bill Starr, H. Ashton Wolfe, Richard Walton, R. G. Jones.

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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