The Magick Bookshop Trilogy: Stories of the Occult

New Updated Edition, August 2019: Please check dates on reviews as many are for much smaller 2005 collection. This new Trilogy contains twenty-four 'occult' short-stories, ten previously unpublished, intended to both inform and entertain. Guided by Qabalist Mr Malynowsky and set primarily in three English antiquarian bookshops: in Oxford, London's West End, and Faebridge in Somerset, spiritual explanations gradually emerge of issues such as anorexia, addiction, OCD, bereavement, gender and even species dysphoria. How intimately are psychology and Magick interlinked? Can a spell, or a ritual, remedy such afflictions of mind, body and spirit? Mr Malynowsky believes that the foundation of such Dark Nights of the Soul can be identified using psychic perception, and that healing may be facilitated by both practical and 'esoteric' means. He understands the value of Myth as psychospiritual map, and in his realm, much becomes archetypal: yet never quite typical. And with his trusted crew of quirky assistants, he intends to weave his restorative magick where it is most needed. These not-so-tall tales are woven throughout with themes such as Tarot, mythology, poetry, art and literature, Spirit-contact, the work of notable initiates such as Dion Fortune and Eliphas Levi, and of course Qabalah. These occult short-stories are accounts of the Divine working within the apparently mundane, of the transcendent nature of Spirit, and of its ultimate ability to overcome anything.