Reviews
Biographies of W.B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley and Algernon Blackwood conjure up a forgotten world of elliptical art, occult experimentation and secret societies. David Keenan's fascinating hagiography, England's Hidden Reverse, suggests that there's a comparable contemporary clique
Excellent . . . Illuminates a shadowy English underground scene whose work accented peculiarities of Englishness through the links and affinities they forged with earlier generations of the island's marginals and outsiders, such as playwright Joe Orton, writers like death decadent Eric, Count Stenbock, ecstatic mystic novelist Arthur Machen and occult figures like Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley
