It took me several hours after receipt of Tahitimas by Poesboes before I realised that the back cover is… uh… mine. It is, of course, just like me to take so long to figure something like that out. I was pleased to see it though - its an old Noumenal.Net logo, one that I always […]

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The Lunatic Tarot by Evan Yi Feng comes in two editions: a large portfolio edition (about 5×10), which lacks borders or titles - the corresponding Rider-Waite card is pictured on the back - and a smaller edition which is set up more like a standard tarot deck. For collectors, I would recommend the larger […]

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I’ve been reading Tarot for over twenty-five years, but my experience with runes is just a few years old. I resisted exploration of the runes for a long time, even during the 80s when those cheap rune sets seemed to be the fashionable accessory for every would-be witch.
But it was inevitable that I eventually […]

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Book Review: The 100th Human - by Chris Fenwick

I love a good apocalypse. Some people like their literature with a nice code, but give me an apocalyptic novel anyday. .And the apocalypse doesn’t have to be Christian in nature, though the Book […]

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So you’re looking for a little something different in a vampire novel? In the vampire genre (which at one time was just a subset of the horror genre but now, with the popularity of the blood-sucking undead at an all-time high, can be considered a genre unto itself), something different is hard to find these […]

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I generally avoid fantasy novels, though I do like some dark fantasy in the vein of Tanith Lee. But I cringe at the appearance of a unicorn, a dwarf, or a wizard in a starry robe and conical hat. 
I had never read any Sara Douglass novels before, primarily because I was turned off by her […]

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I like monsters. Werewolves are my favourites but I also like sasquatch, hell-hounds, moth-men, killer bunnies and Nessie. And we really don’t see enough good monster fiction.
Monster, by Frank Peretti, is not good monster fiction. Instead its Christian creationist propaganda disguised as monster fiction. And the worst thing is, I didn’t know it until […]

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Katherine Neville was writing historical and/or religious conspiracy fiction before Dan Brown was even a twinkle in his publisher’s eye. Neville’s gigantic work of historical conspiracy fiction, The Eight has acheived cult status. The Magic Circle is one of her lesser known works.         There was a time when I liked religious conspiracy novels. […]

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I can't say I'm too fond of the idea of city-themed tarots, but of course, as soon as I make that proclamation, a tarot deck comes out that, although city-themed, blows me away. The The Tarot of Prague by Karen Mahoney and Alex Ukolov is a sumptuous deck collaged from the art and architechture of […]

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I procured the Gilded Tarot on the basis of its many rave reviews, despite the fact that I didn’t particularly like the card featured on the cover of the packaging (Strength).The Woman in the card’s illustration seemed a bit malformed around the chest area, and seemed to be lurching forward slightly, no doubt carried by […]

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