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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday's 'featured book' 📖

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday to English occultist, philosopher, ceremonial magician, poet, and novelist Aleister Crowley, born on October 12, 1875
Whatever your opinion of him, there's no denying his influence on occultism and occult fiction.
It's also my birthday which is a weird coincidence.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday's 'featured book' 📖

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday to English occultist, philosopher, ceremonial magician, poet, and novelist Aleister Crowley, born on October 12, 1875
Whatever your opinion of him, there's no denying his influence on occultism and occult fiction.
It's also my birthday which is a weird coincidence.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 3d

After the initial popularity of "The Turn of the Screw", it was reprinted on its own, while the second story included here, "Covering End", has been largely forgotten today.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 3d

"The Two Magics" by Henry James, published by Macmillan in 1898.
First published by Heinemann in the UK the same year, this collection of two Gothic fiction novellas is notable for being the first publication of James's groundbreaking psychological ghost story "The Turn of the Screw" in book-form.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 3d

That's awesome and awesomely random. One of these years I keep telling myself I'm going to go. It's not far from me, I'm just not a fan of crowds and without fail every year they do it I have something else going on around that time and I end up not having the time or money.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

I genuinely have no idea why, but this account has been blowing up recently. This view-increase graphic is from the IG gallery, but I am seeing the higher traffic and follows here as well.
Whatever celebrity shared my occult book photos, I thank you. And I thank everyone who has recently joined us!

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I had to look this up myself yesterday because I had only ever seen him credited as "E.T.A." before.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 3d

Same guy, his name was Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann. He later changed his third name, Wilhelm to Amadeus so most reprints say "E.T.A." but older books have his original initials "E.T.W."

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

I just impulse-bought this amazing 1890 E.T.W. Hoffman collection for a shamefully low eBay offer that the seller (a resale corporation) instantly accepted. Now I can't even find another copy of this particular black edition for sale anywhere online to evaluate. I think I got something special.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

Nice church book sale finds: Two Guy de Maupassant books from the 1920s. Somehow the raggedness of "The Horla" actually makes it cooler.

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 4d

cool book collection!

Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday's 'featured book' 📖

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Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social · 4d

Speaking of, I picked this a one up today for my after-dinner reading tonight. Seemed somewhat resonate with October vibes Currently unfolding.

Unhappy Far-Off Things by Lord Dunsany, 1919. This dust jacket didn’t require a lot of artistic effort. #booksky

Brown paper dust jacket with title. What looks to be a small pepper in the lower panel.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderful! I don't have that one and don't believe I've ever seen a copy with a jacket. Thanks for sharing!

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

Nice church book sale finds: Two Guy de Maupassant books from the 1920s. Somehow the raggedness of "The Horla" actually makes it cooler.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday's 'featured book' 📖

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

"The Gods of Pegāna" (1919)

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

I genuinely have no idea why, but this account has been blowing up recently. This view-increase graphic is from the IG gallery, but I am seeing the higher traffic and follows here as well.
Whatever celebrity shared my occult book photos, I thank you. And I thank everyone who has recently joined us!

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

There seems to be a relatively common but still expensive older (I think) reddish edition on all the book sites. I'd like to learn more about him and his writing. He's one of those writers I've never read but i know his name from being an influence on other writers. And The Nut Cracker.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

I just impulse-bought this amazing 1890 E.T.W. Hoffman collection for a shamefully low eBay offer that the seller (a resale corporation) instantly accepted. Now I can't even find another copy of this particular black edition for sale anywhere online to evaluate. I think I got something special.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

Happy birthday Ed Wood!
#filmsky

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 5d

It's especially awkward since Karl Edward Wagner had crashed out and died of alcoholism less than a decade before.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 5d

Creature on a mushroom, 1850s sketch by Francis Elizabeth Wynne #FungiFriday 🍄

Painting of a small humanoid creature with green skin and little horns sitting on a mushroom and looking over his shoulder

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 6d

They have the most awkward pair of cover blurbs for some reason.

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