About this episode

Lon Milo DuQuette discusses his book featuring horror stories that reveal hidden truths and secrets of magical initiation.

Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to the Devil himself, this one-of-a-kind volume includes selections from: Aleister Crowley * Ambrose Bierce * Arthur Machen *Edgar Allan Poe * Robert W. Chambers * Ralph Adams Cram * H.P. Lovecraft * Dion Fortune * Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton *Bram Stoker. As Lon Milo DuQuette writes in his introduction, horror takes its time. It creeps in, seeps in, and lingers. These stories will stay with you, biting at your heels from the shadows. Don't say we didn't warn you…

People in this episode

Host: Marla Brooks

Guest: Lon Milo DuQuette

Topics covered

• horror
• occult
• esoteric studies
• magical initiation
• rituals
• hauntings
• forbidden pursuits

Keywords

• horror stories
• occult
• esoteric
• magical rituals
• hauntings
• forbidden knowledge
• Lon Milo DuQuette

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Weiser Book of Horror or Occult

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