The Art of the Occult, Hardcover Book

Coffee table books fall into two categories: ones that exist to fill space, and ones that make your guests uncomfortable in the best possible way. This is the second kind.

The Art of the Occult by S. Elizabeth is a visual deep dive into esoteric and occult imagery spanning the late nineteenth century through to the present day. Tarot, alchemy, mysticism, witchcraft, spiritualism, and the stranger corners of dark aesthetic history, all pulled together into something genuinely worth sitting with. It's the kind of book that belongs on the same shelf as your Coil records and your battered copy of Spare's Book of Pleasure, not because it performs that aesthetic but because it earns it. If your interests sit somewhere between gothic art history, folk horror, and actual practice, this delivers.

Hardcover. Published by White Lion Publishing. Dimensions approximately 25 x 30 cm. Full colour throughout.