Aleister Crowley: The Beast Demystified

Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing, 1998. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 216pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black paper over boards. Text block nice and square. In the dust jacket, with rubbing and light scratching to the surface. In this biography, Hutchinson offers an agnostic view of Aleister Crowley, hinting that the obscurity which surrounds his reputation was partially created by the man himself. The author focuses not on Crowley the impenetrable mystic, but on Crowley the comprehensible man.