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The Simon Iff Stories and Other Works (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) [Paperback]

Aleister Crowley
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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.; Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural edition (22 Mar 2012)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840226781
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840226782
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 14,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Edited with an Introduction by William Breeze.

This volume brings together two series of short fiction by the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875–1947). It includes the first complete publication of Simple Simon, the detective series featuring Crowley’s most memorable fictional creation, the mystic-magician-philosopher-psychoanalyst-detective Simon Iff.

The idealised Crowley in old age, Simon Iff is wise, knowing and unfailingly humorous as he applied psychoanalysis, Taoism and his own religious philosophy of Thelema to divine the depths of human nature and solve a wide array of crimes and mysteries. The six Scrutinies of Simon Iff stories are set in France and England, anchored by Iff’s beloved Hemlock Club. The twelve Simon Iff in America stories afford Crowley’s penetrating insights into America as he found it during his residence from 1914 to 1919. His three Simon Iff Abroad stories take the reader to tribal North Africa, inaccessible Central Africa and to the high seas. The two Simon Iff Psychoanalyst stories were among the earliest tales to use the new science of psychoanalysis to solve mysteries. Also included is Crowley’s other major short fiction series, the eight stories of his legendary Golden Twigs, which were inspired by Sir J.G. Frazer’s encyclopedic study of myth and religion in history, The Golden Bough.

This collection is a companion volume to Crowley’s previously uncollected short stories, The Drug and Other Stories, also published by Wordsworth. Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.


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Crowley's repuation is deservedly enjoying a resurgance after the doldrums to which he was sunk to by his literary executors. His persona as 'Wickedest Man in the world' branded on him by no less than 'The News of the World' is being justly cast off by serious consideration of his works. Like H P Lovecraft we are beginning to appreciate the subtle nuances of his artistic endeavours. This publication, complete, of the Simon Iff tales, so long held up by red tape is part of a greater revaluation of Crowley as a serious and major literary figure. And to top it all, they are a really good bit of entertainment, a vastly important contribution to English Detective literature. And the cost makes it a steal. Pearls before us... Highly recommended.
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All in all i am satisfied with his book! the stories are great, entertaining, and i can't stop reading!! if you get a chance to purchase this one,.. do it!! Totally worth it!
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Wonderful and affordable compilation of Crowley's Simon Iff detective series... 26 Mar 2012
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This is a marvelous and affordable collection of Aleister Crowley's "Simon Iff" detective series and his Golden Twigs series of stories inspired by Frazier's "Golden Bough." This collection is published as companion volume to The Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural). The character of Simon Iff is himself an idealized characture of the author, Crowley.

This contains all six of the stories originally included in the Teitan edtion The Scrutinies of Simon Iff, and a number of other Iff stories not included in that volume, almost 600 pages of rare, if not previously unpublished Crowley material. Long unavailable except occasionaly through privately published pamphlets of individual stories from Crowley esotericists, this is the first time since their original publication almost a century ago that they all have been collected and anthologized. Quite entertaining in its own right, Crowley's fiction is a delight to read. One hopes that the publishers will compile Crowley's rarer poems and plays in a similar companion volume.
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