Felix John Taylor
@felixjrt.bsky.social
Writer, librarian by day. Author of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Thames & Hudson) and a forthcoming Arthur Machen biography: Weird (Jan 2027 from Yale) Irregular blog posts at felixtaylor.org
Sam Kunkel and I are editing some unpublished Arthur Machen correspondence for Tartarus Press; just announced is a volume of letters to the New York bookseller and Walt Whitman collector, Alfred F. Goldsmith (1877-1947) tartaruspress.com/machen-lette...
Beguiling and beautifully written. sean mcnulty's 'Someone New' is a great way to start the weekend. www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Please share if you can
If you're in the habit of listening to BBC World Service around 7am, you might hear my ill voice speaking about Arthur Machen tomorrow morning
Brilliant article, Sinclair's account of Prynne's life through a catalogue of stapled pamphlets, tapes and chapbooks
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2w ago‘What was noticeable was the way that Prynne championed outlier poets alongside the obvious members of the so-called Cambridge School. He liked independent spirits, who thrived without the benefit of university education and patronage.’ Iain Sinclair on J.H. Prynne. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Want to help bring some newly unearthed 1920s occult poetry into the world? www.kickstarter.com/projects/old...
The Lost Occult Books of Victor Neuburg
Publishing never-before-seen books of poetry by legendary British occultist Victor Neuburg.
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Episode 158 is out this week! My guest is author Felix John Taylor, who joined me to discuss his book 'The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Magic Arts and the Occult Revival'. Available on all good podcast platforms from Wednesday. #Podcast #Magic #Art #Occult #Paranormal @felixjrt.bsky.social
The Great God Pan & The White People by Arthur Machen a new edition with illustrations by Flora McLachlan, Afterword by Henry Wessells just announced by Suntup Press suntup.press/the-great-go...
The Great God Pan & The White People by Robert Louis Stevenson - Suntup Editions
Among the foundational works of supernatural fiction, Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan and “The White People” venture beyond reality as we know it, and into something older, stranger, and infinitely ...
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Conner's the real deal, I hope I said -something- illuminating during this very enjoyable conversation! www.patreon.com/ConnerHabib/...
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question I was recently asked on a podcast: any advice for starting a ceremonial magic society? 1) You're asking the wrong person here & 2) Make sure your group's invented backstory is bulletproof
A cute little marasmioid mushroom from yesterday, growing from a twig
The Golden Dawn and the Arts w. @felixjrt.bsky.social Tuesday 29 September 2026 7.30 pm for 8pm The Bell, E1 7EX Details and tickets: forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-... @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
Found me Dagons again, lost in a book stack after a shelf reordering. The Klein issue contains a letter (on paper, not in print) TEDK sent to Roger Dobson in 1989 after Roger and Mark Valentine put some of my Lovecraft art into their AKLO zine. Klein was praiseworthy which meant a lot at the time.
The 1899 first edition of "The Wind Among the Reeds" by W. B. Yeats, along with its gilt cover design by Althea Gyles.
Tomorrow's eclipse may appear something like this, but only if you're very lucky.
This evening's hare had found the only patch of green in the dry, stubbled corn fields.
I wrote a feature on the artists & writers of the Order of the Golden Dawn for this month's Fortean Times -- the picture researchers has done themselves proud! See that Isabelle de Steiger illustration there. I vote you buy this mag.
The @wainwrightprize.bsky.social shortlist is out ... and Stone Lands is on it! AMAZING. Thank you everyone involved in making the book (especially Philip Harris who did the beautiful illustrations) and in selecting it – what an honour this is 💚
I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 4mo ago“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
New blog post on Arthur Machen and a short-lived Virginian literary magazine (how obscure can one go?): felixtaylor.org/arthur-mache...
Arthur Machen in The Reviewer (1921-24) – Magic Arts
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Sold out show (26 seats) at the Last Tuesday Society on Monday - thanks to all the absinthe drinkers who sweated through my ramblings
#WyrdWednesday It doesn't really matter the year, some themes are eternal. 'Crow in Snow' by Leo Visser (1880-1950)
my friend Alex, archivist and librarian, discovered a nine-volume collection of the works of Arthur Machen in the Tasmanian State Library Archives. It's signed. I had to go and touch a book Machen had also. Here's my pics. I got a genuine thrill from this.
One of the cool things about the FRIENDS OF ARTHUR MACHEN is they issue a twice-yearly a hardback journal chock full of curiosities. And occasionally they publish books that are given away free to members (often later highly sought after by collectors). Join here: www.arthurmachen.org.uk/join/
Golden Dawn book gets a mention in the Tablet this week:
