Seven Crossroads of Night
In Seven Crossroads of Night, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold sets forth the foundation for Quimbanda in theory and practice, presenting a blueprint for the themes that generate the variety of ways Quimbanda can be approached.
Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold’s Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila is a significant study on the cult of Pomba Gira, the most comprehensive work in the English language on the Devil’s mistress, whose Brazilian cult has bewitched so many.
Saint Cyprian’s Deck of Cards
Using as inspiration José Leitão’s work on the Iberian tradition of Saint Cyprian, artist Natalia Lee Forty has created a unique cartomancy deck meant to enter into conversation with the longstanding Lenormand and Sibilla tradition.
Flowering Dusk (Forthcoming)
Holythorn Press is delighted to announce that we will be publishing Flowering Dusk by Ella Young in 2024. We are also honoured that Dr. Christina Oakley-Harrington has agreed to contribute an Introduction.
Desert Meditations (Forthcoming)
Desert Meditations: Gnostic Cartography (A Handbook of Agni Yoga) outlines the eclectic transmissions and revelations born from a lifetime of esoteric exploration within both Eastern and Western initiatic atmospheres.
Dreams & Letters (Forthcoming)
In this collection of two of Sédir’s works, Austin Avison introduces Paul Sédir, situating him in the exciting period of societal and cultural changes during the pre-war years in Europe, and provides a translation of Dreams: Theories—Practice—Interpretation and Magic Letters.
The Goddess Seals
After long and successful experience using the Magickal Seals from such grimoires as the Greater Key of Solomon, The Black Pullet, and the Lemegeton to enrich and empower her magickal workings, she grew frustrated that no such seals existed for the Goddesses with whom she and her students and colleagues worked.
IO Typhon (Forthcoming)
In ancient myth, Typhon was the deicidal godbeast that drove the Olympians into Egypt and tore Zeus’s sinews from his body.
Ars Goetia (Forthcoming)
The Lemegeton - The Little Key of Solomon - is the name of a family of seventeenth and eighteenth-century manuscripts inspired by Johannes Weyer's Pseudomonarchia on the one hand, and Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft on the other, drawing upon Agrippa and Peter of Abano along the way.
On Christ and Antichrist (Forthcoming)
Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170s - 230s) was an enigma even to his contemporaries. His work was read and admired by the Church Fathers, yet they weren't sure who he was. Perhaps it didn't matter; the work spoke for itself. His reputation rested on his Refutation Omnium Haeresium, a far-ranging treatise on the religious controversies of his time.
The Witch Cult in Western Europe (Forthcoming)
In The Witch Cult in Western Europe, Anthropologist Margaret Alice Murray (1863 – 1963) presents her pioneering and seminal witch-cult theory – an enigmatic history of European witchcraft and the rituals, beliefs and practices of an ancient, secretive pre-Christian religion that persisted covertly amidst fierce Christian persecution.
Semesilam: The Eternal Sun (Forthcoming)
A compilatory volume, gathering the artwork that José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal produced between 2012-2017. This ‘definitive anthology’ includes the long out-of-print Handbook of Sacred Anatomy (Aeon Sophia Press, 2014) and A Second Nature (ASP, 2017), along with further, unpublished works from the same period and an extended photographic record of Sabogal’s work focusing on human skulls and bones.
Daimon and Pharmakon (Forthcoming)
Daimon and Pharmakon contains thirteen cutting-edge essays on the contribution of psychoactive substances to occult and esoteric spiritual traditions.
Lexicon Lamiarum (Forthcoming)
The Lexicon of Witchcraft is an illustrated compendium of witchcraft terminology, encompassing rituals, symbols, spirits, objects, and other specialized concepts of witchcraft.
Sabbatic Witchcraft (Forthcoming)
The figure of the witch in medieval Europe was strongly defined by her relation to the Sabbat: the phantasmagoric nocturnal rite where the living trafficked with the dead.
Onomasticon of Occult Herbs (Forthcoming)
Onomasticon of Occult Herbs is a cross-cultural lexicon of sacred plant names, as they emerged from the religions and magical traditions of the world.
The Spirit of the Downs (Forthcoming)
The chalk downs of Sussex possess a fascinating cultural tapestry of folk belief, spell-craft, charms, and lore.
Operation Cone of Power
It has long been rumoured that on the eve of August 1940, a coven of witches gathered in the New Forest to create an immense surge of magical forces to aid Britain's fight in WWII.
Katy Hunter and the Magic Star
Far away from everything familiar, Katy Hunter dreads the thought of spending six months in the sleepy countryside with relatives she barely knows.
Living Witchcraft
Living Witchcraft is the story of a witch’s year, full of friendships, celebrations, pagan faith, real life drama and upsets, all brought together with honesty and humour.