RICHARD MCNEFF

 

 

RC Mcneff was born in London. He is a published poet and short story writer, and has worked internationally in education and the art world. His interest in Crowley was sparked by contact with associates of the Beast at an early age. Sybarite among the Shadows grew out of the 1977 International Times short story subsequently published in America and Russia.

SYBARITE AMONG THE SHADOWS

By RICHARD MCNEFF

 

ISBN 1869928822
Publisher: Mandrake of Oxford
Price : £8.99
Format: Paperback Original
Category: Occult Fiction

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''Mcneff's novel is so different from anything else you'd normally find on a bookshelf that it should perhaps be a compulsory purchase.''
- Independent On Sunday

 

Dylan Thomas, Aleister Crowley and Victor Neuburg
caught in a surrealist web.

What if the Beast returned and you were not sure if he were the best or worst thing that had ever happened to you?

Sybarite among the Shadows finds Victor Neuburg on June 11 1936 with the poet he discovered, Dylan Thomas. They embark on a quest whose object is Neuburg's old master, the Great Beast 666; settings, the Surrealist Exhibition, and pubs and clubs of bohemian London; characters, Augustus John, Nina Hamnett and Tom Driberg. Neuburg confronts his demons; Crowley does too. They also meet something far more menacing: MI5's plot to avert the Abdication.

"To use Aleister Crowley in a work of 'faction' is brave indeed. Just his name casts a spell over the page Richard Mcneff has faced up to the task with aplomb and realistically recreates him in all his bizarre, mesmerizing complexity."

- Martin Booth (author of Aleister Crowley: A Life)

From Snoo Wilson:

"Full of fascinating nuggets…..Neuburg's crisis of identity with AC is very well observed"

 

See also Jean Overton Fuller's Magical Dilemma of Victory Neuburg.

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