This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Maniac pictured here is a reprint of the original 1909 edition which claims to be an account of madness from a patient’s point of view. Mahlon Blaine is the actual illustrator of The Maniac though he used the name G….
Farm Life
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Hey Beatnik! this is the Farm book by Stephen Gaskin is a tutorial on all things hippy and counterculture. Gaskin, founder of “The Farm” in Tennessee, was a famous leader in the Haight-Ashbury circles of San Francisco and…
The rituals of Illuminates of Thanateros
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Liber Null, a book by Pete Carroll, was originally written as a sourcebook for the magical organization, Illuminates of Thanateros. It includes spells and magical exercises ranging from mind control to transmogrification. A warning at the beginning of…
Crowley and the Beast
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The Santo Domingo Collection continues to bolster Harvard’s library of works by author and occult leader Aleister Crowley. These range from substantive books on magic to pamphlets containing individual poems (one of these, titled “Tyrol”, is a condemnation of…
Street Art in the 1970s
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Faith of Graffiti presents the reader with beautiful full-spread photographs of street art by Jon Naar and Mervyn Kurlansky with an accompanying text by Norman Mailer. By keeping the text separate in the center of the book, the…
Demons and devils
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Though outnumbered by books on drugs and sexuality, the Santo Domingo Collection’s occult works are nonetheless considerable in number. Featured today are two early works on demonology, one by a French political philosopher and statesman, and the other by…
Mob Stories
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Detailing the early 1970s mob scene Mafia at War is an interesting and thorough read. Published by New York Magazine, this book gives an in depth chronology of the mob bosses from the early 1900s to the early…
Art and the Occult
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. James Wasserman, author, editor, publisher and occultist, gives us Art and Symbols of the Occult. A disciple of Aleister Crawley’s Ordo Templi Orientis, he has written numerous books on the subject as well as republishing and updating several…
Komic Kats
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman ran for 31 years in the New York Evening Journal and follows a cast of animal characters set in a highly stylized Arizona home. Although not popular among the…
Mysterious matchbox
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. This particular item which I believe is an artists’ book is quite interesting, published in Paris in 1990 by Ed. Rouleau Libre it was issued as a matchbox measuring 8 x 6 cm and contains a number of…