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The Necromancers: Best of Black Magic and Witchcraft

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Here I was all set to read about old world Necromancers and what I got was dime store paperback sensationalism. Stupid stuff like Aleister Crowley as a 'devil worshipper' or how the author of the essay claims Crowley sacrificed his wife's cat on an alter in Cefalu. Oy vay can we be any more disparaging? Crowley thought blood sacrifice was unnecessary and from all of his writings he held contempt for those who partook of it. For all of his detractors the ol' British windbag wasn't any sort of blood worker.

Other parts of the book are just plain silly - mostly fictional fantasy stories by writers like Robert Bloch and others of his ilk. Then you have weak essays about so-alled Necromancers but which were just Dennis Wheatley-esque types of practitioners - most whom no one knows of. If you like fantasy fiction, you may want to pick up a copy but there's nigh to nothing about actual necromancy in here.

I bought Peter Haining's "Warlock Book" a long time ago and love it as it has some useful magical formulae in it and some (albeit poor) scholarship. However THIS book is horrid and Haining should be shot for conspiring to make a quick buck with a book of lies and silliness.

I rate it 1 out of 5 stars for silliness