This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short
fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley
(1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five
were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for
the first time. Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction
from 1908 to 1922. Like their author, his stories are fun, smart, witty,
thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places in which he
had lived, and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London,
pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the First World War. The title story
The Drug