City of the beast : the London of Aleister Crowley / Phil Baker.

London, UK : Strange Attractor Press, 2022.

342 pages 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The mad grey city : a foreword by Timothy d'Arch Smith -- Introduction : magus about town -- Tomb of Burton, Mortlake : the perfect pioneer -- Thistle Grove, Kensington : disapproval of the universe in general -- Royal Arcade, Old Bond Street : what all the others are afraid to touch -- Watkins Bookshop, Cecil Court : great mysteries -- Douglas Road, Canonbury : the quality of the phantasmal -- Hotel Cecil and the Strand : sky above Cecil -- Farringdon Road : found on a bookstall -- Great Queen Street : enter the secret chiefs -- Barrow Road, Streatham : a mean, grim horror -- Chancery Lane : semi-solid shadows -- Lowe's Chemist, Stafford Street : exploring the pharmacopeia -- Blythe Road, Hammersmith : the battle -- Randolph Road, Maida Vale : magical feuding -- Gower Street : any sin would be an act of piety -- Café Royal : pagan and painted -- St. Mary's Terrace, Paddington : obvious from the style -- Warwick Road : pure prestidigitation -- Victoria Street : the most sinister atmosphere -- Henrietta Street, Covent Garden : fitted for the infernal rites -- South Audley Street : child of a pig -- Bruton Street : an artist -- Took's Court, Holborn : the new age -- British Library : one thing you can say about satanists... -- British Museum : the professor from Lhasa -- The Royal Courts of Justice, Strand : keeping it dark -- Caxton Hall : by the power in me vested... -- Looking Glass Publishing Company, Fleet Street : like Alice in Wonderland -- Ralston Street, Chelsea : curiously unreal -- Savoy Hotel, Strand : exchanging electricity -- Simpson's, Strand : boiled toads, Mother -- Old Tivoli Theatre, Strand : taking London by storm -- Flood Street, Chelsea : with an astral dagger -- 93 Regent Street : there could hardly be a nicer set of people -- Piccadilly : the mysteries of the IX° -- Avenue Studios, Fulham Road : rendezvous for spies -- Outram Road, Croydon : Count Zeppelin is requested -- Wellington Square, King's Road : spirit soothing oasis -- Cleveland Gardens, Bayswater : perfectly evil -- The Harlequin Club, Soho : sordid and filthy drinking den -- Eiffel Tower Restaurant, Fitzrovia : the most criminal street in London -- Duke's Hotel, St. James's Place : Mr. Bishop checks in -- Mansfield Street : unspeakably treacherous swine -- Mandrake Press, Museum Street : the man who saw the point -- Atlantis Bookshop, Bury Place and Museum Street : at the sign of the beast 666 -- Langham Hotel, Portland Place : Colonel Carter -- Park Mansions, Knightsbridge : wife of the beast -- Fribourg and Treyer, Haymarket : perique by appointment -- L'Escargot, Soho, and other restaurants : ordeal by curry -- Westminster Abbey : a past life -- Albemarle Street: magick -- Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane : an herd of many swine -- Praed Street, Paddington : libel discovered -- Cumberland Terrace : the flame of fornication -- Carlos Place, Mayfair : abominable libel -- Upper Montagu Street : explorer granted bail -- The Old Bailey : thank you, my lord -- Hungaria Restaurant, Lower Regent Street : babe of the abyss -- Hotel Washington, Curzon Street : the adorable Tanith -- Mayfair Hotel, Down Street : levitator bowled out -- Redburn Street, Chelsea : the unfortunate Norman Mudd -- Carey Street, Bankruptcy Court : on Queer Street -- Great Ormond Street, Bloomsbury : the eye of God -- Welbeck Street, Marylebone : pig's trotters and incense -- Warren Drive, Surbiton : amazing treachery -- Redcliffe Gardens, Chelsea : entrenched -- Fairhazel Gardens, Hamptstead : on the astral plane -- Duke Street : a little bi-location -- Manor Place, Paddington Green : a remote slum -- Rac Club, Pall Mall : Frieda Harris and the great work -- Sandwich Street, Saint Pancras : Bobby Barefoot -- Chepstow Villas, Notting Hill : educating Phyllis -- The Obelisk, Embankment : charter of universal freedom -- Alderney Street : Mattie Pickett and the women of Pimlico -- Hasker Street, Chelsea : most accidents happen at home -- West Hampstead : love in Hampstead -- Blackfriars Road, Waterloo : Cath Falconer -- Soho : Josephine Blackley and the women of Soho -- Hyde Park : on shikar -- The French House, Dean Street, and other pubs : triple absinthe -- Chester Terrace, Belgravia : the house on the borderland -- West Halkin Street : the bat in the belfry -- Morton House, Chiswick : the blackcurrant pudding brothers -- The Paragon, Petersham Road : the holy grail in Richmond -- The Green, Richmond : twenty-one again -- Fitzwilliam House, Richmond : drinks with the reverend -- Duke Street, Mayfair : death of a doctor -- Dover Street, Piccadilly : a very short stay -- Hamilton House, Piccadilly : the abiding rapture -- Wilton Place : Doctor Faustus -- Levy's Sound Studio, New Bond Street : the magical voice -- 93 Jermyn Street : the valley of the shadow of death -- Afterword: "a word in wilde haste" : Crowley, London and the 1890s.