In celebration of the best dirn month of the year I will be posting some of my favorite pages from one of my favorite books from my youth. At the end of the month, it’s my plan to post the entire volume of A Tourist’s Guide to Transylvania in PDF form.

A Tourist’s Guide to Transylvania is an odd collection of licensed fantasy and horror illustrations, magical and occult references, and awkward humor. Released by Octopus Books in 1981, my seven year old self stumbled across this at the local K-Mart while out shopping for, as I remember, school supplies for my first year at school. What an odd world 1981 must have been that a first grader in an affluent suburb in the midwest could stumble across such a peculiar collection of horror and occult doctrine.

Stay tuned for the entire collection of A Tourist’s Guide to Transylvania, I promise it is a wonderful ride.

The second half of the night was devoted to films that reflected the Southland’s profound role in transforming and transmitting Aleister Crowley’s Thelemic religion. Between the time of Crowley’s decline and death, and the subsequent occult publishing book of the late Sixties and early Seventies, LA kept the Beast’s words and practices alive like nowhere on earth.

Read the rest here…

If you weren’t able to make it out to the first annual EsoZone conference last August and watch the Vikings offend the sensibilities of the SRO audience of budding occultists and fun-loving misanthropes now is your chance to witness history!

Thanks to the nice folks at the Grey Lodge for capturing this video that is sure to haunt us for years to come. Gracias to the AlterTube folks for hosting it.

If you want to see the Viking Youth live we will be performing on May 23rd at the Green Door Tavern in Chicago. More info coming soon…