Alejandro Sirio, 1927. #illustration #1920s #AlejandroSirio #castle

Cover reveal:

Hope you’re holding up OK in the heat. Find a shady spot, and remember to stay hydrated! Latest instalment of LOS, my work-in-progress graphic novel about William Blake loshighway.substack.com/p/los-part-10 #WilliamBlake #London #windmill

In July! Ticket price includes absinthe! thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/t...

Part 3 of a series documenting my search for Arthur Machen letters in the US last summer: felixtaylor.org/arthur-mache...

"What a queer duck!" —H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 14 Dec 1933 re: Aleister Crowley

‘A constant quiet terror’: Getting lost in Irish #folklore – in pictures Maria Lax’s images are inspired by the phenomenon of ‘stray sod’, in which patches of enchanted land are said to lead astray anyone who steps on them www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

solidarity on this #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay and of course there is a card for that! this is “solidarity” from a deck printed in Paris c1870s-90s gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Nice! War Song of the Welsh, a refined taste in Machen clearly

newcriterion.com/article/a-st... New Criterion reviewed my Golden Dawn book:

Today is UK publication day for STORIES OF THE STONES!

El llibret que han fet a @pegana-cat.bsky.social és una preciositat. El disseny, les il·lustracions, el paper i els relats de Lord Dunsany et transporten a un altre món. Joies com aquesta no abunden.

A talk on an amazing woman of magic and words Florence Farr (actress, producer, musician and head of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn) coming to a bookshop near you... She stood up to Aleister Crowley and W. B. Yeats wrote poetry about her. DM to book a seat.

literaryreview.co.uk/glad-rags-at... For those who can see beyond the paywall, I wrote about the Order of the Golden Dawn's questionable 'cipher manuscript' and Yeats, Machen and A. E. Waite's investigations into it's authenticity for the Literary Review:

Cheers Richard, I couldn't have written the Crowley chapter without your Perdurabo

London: Monday, 13 April, I'm in-conversation with Travis Elborough at the legendary Colony Room (Green), Heddon Street, in the Mayfair/Soho borderlands, talking occult modernism in London, 1912, re my book Dead the Long Year! come ahhht!

Fascinating talk by @felixjrt.bsky.social at Watkins Books 🌒✨🪐

Seems appropriate to be speaking at Watkins on Friday - a bookshop whose founder J.M. Watkins published the occult scholarship of several Order members: www.watkinsbooks.com/event-detail...

Magical (or should that be magikal?) evening at The Book Hive in Norwich for the launch of @felixjrt.bsky.social’s The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn book. Looking forward to reading this! #BookSky

Kind words, cheers Fiona!

Fantastic evening at Atlantis Bookshop for Felix John Taylor's book launch of his study and history of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, released by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social #thehermeticorderofthegoldendawn #magicarts #occultrevival #secretsociety #occulthistory

LONDON & LISBON screenings of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher Lisbon on Thurs. (26/3) at Damas plus João Kyron and I performing my Ghost Box Records stuff live for the first time! LONDON on Sat. (28/3) at RIO Cinema Dalston, 3pm with cast & crew attending! riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What...

Today’s #bookpost is @felixjrt.bsky.social’s study of the Golden Dawn tradition and its relationship with literature.

Published today! And #2 in Alchemy, what a chart topper

Just delivered to my Kindle - looks interesting The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Magic Arts and the Occult Revival: Amazon.co.uk: Taylor, Felix John: 9780500029183: Books share.google/8PQ4sdaTe4lmPx… @FelixJohnTaylo#booksk#goldendawnw#inklingsgs

Norwich event, March 26th: www.thebookhive.co.uk/event/felix-...

Front window of Atlantis Bookshop (photo Matthew Shaw)

🎶 Listen to BBC Radio 3's In Tune to hear the conversation between Petroc Trelawny and author Eric McElroy about his book, Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/iOEwBwb

Sam Raimi's Walden

Come to my book launch at Atlantis Books if you fancy it, March 25! How many people can fit inside an occult bookshop? We shall find out theatlantisbookshop.com/events/event...

Tune into BBC Radio 3's In Tune tomorrow (Wed) from 5pm as Eric McElroy talks about his new book, Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen, with presenter Petroc Trelawny.

Hello Friday. 🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

new blog post about what happened when Aleister Crowley tried to seize the Golden Dawn's headquarters, and what W B Yeats did about it: felixtaylor.org/yeats-vs-cro...

Current task at work: try to repair this Yeats collection for a student.

Very sad to read of the passing of folklorist and poet Neil Philip. He was fascinating to talk to, and always kind and supportive. When I interviewed him for issue 12, he quoted William Blake: “This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity”.

The 1908 edition of "Poems" by W. B. Yeats has an amazing gilt design on the front by Althea Gyles, full of occult symbolism. Gyles was in The Order of the Golden Dawn with Yeats who described "a strange red-haired girl all whose thoughts were set upon painting & poetry"

Sylvia Townsend Warner's OPUS 7 is dedicated to her uncle, Arthur Machen. #booksky

A sad truth, but the man had a deep antipathy for anything resembling leftist politics

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein, we continue our look at women's memoirs of Lovecraft with "A Glimpse of H.P. L." (1945) by Mary V. Dana. deepcuts.blog/2026/01/10/a...

I've had zero time for writing blogs recently, so I cheated and cobbled one together using photos of Nicholas Hawksmoor Churches taken last winter: felixtaylor.org/half-a-dozen...

From an old book called The Haunted Omnibus/Great Ghost Stories of the World. These are the only others I found good scans of, for Afterward by Edith Wharton, The White People by Arthur Machen. Lynd Ward, the artist, also did an edition of Frankenstein.

A cataloger at the Morgan on cataloging, book curses, and the need for a controlled vocabulary term so we can describe and find said curses. 📜📚

The Christmas Tree, Emil Czech (1903)

Publication date 19th March! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Tom Paulin's 1986 LRB piece on Yeats' letters is a glass of champagne - both dry and sparkling. Look at these 3 sentences! "The impulse dissolved in helpless love..." What a writer he was.

G is for ‘The Great God Pan’ in my #folkhorroralphabet published in 1894 by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. The story is complex but I’ve focused on the character Helen Vaughan; a woodland dwelling deviant and daughter of the mythological God Pan. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...

Hedgehog, Jane Dignum.

Gawsworth, not Galsworthy! I've heard Francis Ford Coppola is apparently Redonda's Duke of Megalopolis