Of the many genres of world history, myth undoubtedly has had the most influence on culture from ancient to modern times. The Book of the Silent Sky follows in this mythic tradition with a fresh, yet familiar origin story of the cosmos, the creation of man, and the ultimate purpose of life.

Robert Cochrane – a name synonymous with Traditional Craft – is perhaps one of its most controversial figures of the 20th century. Scores of articles, books, blogs and webpages claim much in his name, each a pastiche of the other, and though they are a testament to his popularity, they offer little substance regarding his work, and even less in terms of factual information.

In the historical records of European Witchcraft, one of the most notorious allegations against the accused was the use of a magical salve to gain the power of nocturnal flight.

This long-awaited book brings twenty plants from the Witches’ Garden into the light, along with their accumulated folklore, folk medicine and historical magical uses, particularly from the past three hundred years out of North Western Europe, though some information is much older.

Throughout history, certain individuals held renown for their power over the spirits, the forces of Nature, and their supernatural powers, through the practice of the arts of magic.

A comprehensive collection of the Sphere Group documents, with biographical notes on each of the members.

The Guild of the Mater Jesus originated out of Dion Fortune’s wish to form a new kind of Christian worship for adepts which would become The Church of the Graal.

This is our labour of love over quite a few years, covering druids, witchcraft, fairies, sacred kingship, Irish Hermeticists, W. B. Yeats and his Celtic Order, and the “Hibernian Adept” Art O’Murnaghan.

This short novel of 1670 gave the literary world a lasting gift: the doctrine of Elementary Spirits (Gnomes, Nymphs or Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders) and their relations with humans from Adam’s time to the present.

Liber Coronzom offers the occult student a practical approach to working with the angelic entities and powers that populate the world of Enochian magic, the early modern occult system based on the mysterious spirit-conjurations of Elizabethan astrologer Doctor John Dee.

This volume presents essays on the history of dreams and nightmares, in particular focusing on how these have been visualised; and how and why these visualizations change.

Accompanying the Liber Eximo Carnem, a small prayer book is presented to those who wish to walk into the grave of their own unmaking.

The primary focus is on crossing the threshold and the candidate being led blindfolded and bound to the chamber of his/her unmaking. Much of what is being written here relies on the vignette of becoming undone and therefore unmade.

Conjuration may be described as the expression of willful intent in the Lunar Astral World, causing it to become manifest in the physical world.

Holythorn Press is delighted to announce that we will be publishing Flowering Dusk by Ella Young in 2024. We are also honoured that Dr. Christina Oakley-Harrington has agreed to contribute an Introduction.

Desert Meditations: Gnostic Cartography (A Handbook of Agni Yoga) outlines the eclectic transmissions and revelations born from a lifetime of esoteric exploration within both Eastern and Western initiatic atmospheres.

In this collection of two of Sédir’s works, Austin Avison introduces Paul Sédir, situating him in the exciting period of societal and cultural changes during the pre-war years in Europe, and provides a translation of Dreams: Theories—Practice—Interpretation and Magic Letters.

In ancient myth, Typhon was the deicidal godbeast that drove the Olympians into Egypt and tore Zeus’s sinews from his body.

The Lemegeton - The Little Key of Solomon - is the name of a family of seventeenth and eighteenth-century manuscripts inspired by Johannes Weyer's Pseudomonarchia on the one hand, and Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft on the other, drawing upon Agrippa and Peter of Abano along the way.

Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170s - 230s) was an enigma even to his contemporaries. His work was read and admired by the Church Fathers, yet they weren't sure who he was. Perhaps it didn't matter; the work spoke for itself. His reputation rested on his Refutation Omnium Haeresium, a far-ranging treatise on the religious controversies of his time.

In The Witch Cult in Western Europe, Anthropologist Margaret Alice Murray (1863 – 1963) presents her pioneering and seminal witch-cult theory – an enigmatic history of European witchcraft and the rituals, beliefs and practices of an ancient, secretive pre-Christian religion that persisted covertly amidst fierce Christian persecution.

A compilatory volume, gathering the artwork that José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal produced between 2012-2017. This ‘definitive anthology’ includes the long out-of-print Handbook of Sacred Anatomy (Aeon Sophia Press, 2014) and A Second Nature (ASP, 2017), along with further, unpublished works from the same period and an extended photographic record of Sabogal’s work focusing on human skulls and bones.

Daimon and Pharmakon contains thirteen cutting-edge essays on the contribution of psychoactive substances to occult and esoteric spiritual traditions.

The Lexicon of Witchcraft is an illustrated compendium of witchcraft terminology, encompassing rituals, symbols, spirits, objects, and other specialized concepts of witchcraft.

The figure of the witch in medieval Europe was strongly defined by her relation to the Sabbat: the phantasmagoric nocturnal rite where the living trafficked with the dead.

Onomasticon of Occult Herbs is a cross-cultural lexicon of sacred plant names, as they emerged from the religions and magical traditions of the world.

The chalk downs of Sussex possess a fascinating cultural tapestry of folk belief, spell-craft, charms, and lore.

Liber Lilith is a powerful and disturbing novel which tells the story of an unfortunate German occultist, Karl Steiger.