1. Cover of Aleister Crowley: The Beast In Britain, written by Gary Lachman. Illustration in green, brown and cream in an Egyptian-influenced Art Deco style, showing a stylised head wearing a nemes headdress.
  2. Open brown and cream geometric packaging for Aleister Crowley: The Beast In Britain, revealing the guide's black and green Art Deco-style title page with two postcards, 'Join My Magick Ritual' and 'Be My Scarlet Woman', laid on top.
  3. Overview of Aleister Crowley: The Beast In Britain, showing the guide's title page, an introductory panel on Crowley, a central London map with numbered locations, and maps of Britain and London marking sites from Loch Ness to Hastings.
  4. Interior of Aleister Crowley: The Beast In Britain, showing map and text spreads for Britain and London in chronological order, with entries including Boleskine House and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a 'London Haunts' panel, and a timeline of the Beast.
  5. Blank postcard back, and two postcards from the Aleister Crowley set: one reading 'You're invited, join my magick ritual, the Great Beast' with an eye-in-triangle symbol, the other reading 'Be my scarlet woman'.

Aleister Crowley: The Beast In Britain

Regular price £12.00

A must-have for Crowley fiends

- Fortean Times

The famed and feared occultist Aleister Crowley was never in one place long. His travels took him across the globe, sometimes as a seeker, at other times staying just ahead of creditors, rivals and cast-off lovers.

In this large-format illustrated map and guide, author Gary Lachman documents key locations in the homeland to which Aleister Crowley always returned, from his birth in Royal Leamington Spa in 1875 to his death in Hastings in 1947.

The 40-plus entries include Carlisle, where a teenage Crowley slept with a hotel chambermaid and threw his tutor out of a boat; Boleskine, his house on Loch Ness, later owned by Jimmy Page; and numerous London addresses, including residences, pubs, occult shops and even the Café Royal, where he pretended to be invisible and ran out on the bill.

Aleister Crowley: The Beast In Britain offers insight into the life of an intriguing, complex and profoundly flawed character, whose influence reverberates long after his death.

Written by Gary Lachman
Design by Michelle Merlin

Folder contents
Map (400 x 690mm) and two postcards
Print
Litho-printed in Sussex, England, using vegetable oil-based inks on sustainably sourced paper