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The Magic Circle (1886) by John William Waterhouse.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic<\/em> has just been published in France by Editions Delcourt<\/a>. A preview here<\/a> shows how carefully they’ve managed to translate and reletter my page designs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: Algernon Blackwood’s stories of John Silence<\/a>, occult detective.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Relevant to some of my recent reading: The Necronomicon<\/em> Wars<\/a>, an examination of the many attempts to give life to HP Lovecraft’s fictional grimoire.<\/p>\n

Altered States<\/em> is tremendously exciting to watch\u2014and not only during its psychedelic interludes when goat Jesus is being crucified and writhing red figures are toppling, Hieronymus Bosch\u2013like, into hell and abstract splotches give the impression of cells endlessly dividing or murky membranes dissolving and beautiful women stare into Magritte skies and waves of lava crash as though the molten core of humanity itself were erupting. Even in its quieter moments, it is a beautiful film, with Hurt\u2019s every appearance shot by cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth to emphasize his character\u2019s alien otherworldliness.<\/p>\n

Jessica Kiang<\/a> explores the creation of Ken Russell’s flawed but fascinating psychedelic feature, Altered States<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 A new catalogue of lots at another After Dark: Gay Art and Culture<\/a> online auction. Homoerotic art, photos, historic porn. etc.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tarot decks through the ages<\/a>: a video showing some of the cards from Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More psychedelia: Neuroscientist Grigori Guitchounts<\/a> asks “What is your brain doing on psychedelics?”<\/p>\n

\u2022 At the Daily Heller: Ryan Hughes<\/a> has published a weighty collection of his typeface designs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Old music: Caged (25th Anniversary Edition)<\/em><\/a> by Ian Boddy & Chris Carter.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At the BFI: Rory Doherty<\/a> selects 10 great Technicolor melodramas.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: The Old School Horrors of Terence Fisher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Photographs from the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ambientblog<\/a> celebrates 20 years of existence.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Dave Ball<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Necronomicon<\/em><\/a> (1970) by Les Baxter | Liri\u00efk Necronomicus Kahnt<\/em><\/a> (1975) by Magma | Necronomicon\u2013The Magus<\/em><\/a> (2004) by John Zorn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Magic Circle (1886) by John William Waterhouse. \u2022 The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic has just been published in France by Editions Delcourt. A preview here shows how carefully they’ve managed to translate and reletter my page designs. \u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain … Continue reading “Weekend links 801”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 801","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,4,851,7,5,22,26,16,44,12,17,13,10,23],"tags":[182,13942,13685,1804,3065,14252,6724,14251,450,3046,7186,595,7531,1473,320,14086,14253,552,10252],"class_list":["post-28843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-drugs","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-occult","category-painting","category-photography","category-psychedelia","category-science","category-typography","category-work","tag-algernon-blackwood","tag-ambientblog","tag-bumper-book-of-magic","tag-chris-carter","tag-dave-ball","tag-grigori-guitchounts","tag-ian-boddy","tag-jessica-kiang","tag-john-william-waterhouse","tag-john-zorn","tag-jordan-cronenweth","tag-ken-russell","tag-les-baxter","tag-magma","tag-necronomicon","tag-rory-doherty","tag-ryan-hughes","tag-tarot","tag-terence-fisher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}