'The Dedalus Book of the Occult 'celebrates the influence of occult thought and sensibility on some of the central poets and writers of the last two centuries, beginning with the Enlightenment obsession with occult politics, through the Romantic explosion, the paradoxically decadent and futuristic occultism of the fin de siecle, and the deep occult roots of the modernist movement. Swedenborg, Baudelaire, Huysmans and Strindberg are only some of the names to feature in this hidden history of western thought. AUTHOR: Gary Lachman is the author of the 'Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind', 'The Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse', 'The Dedalus Occult Reader', 'The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters' and 'In Search of P.D. Ouspensky:The Genius in the Shadow of Gurdjieff' and, as Gary Valentine, 'New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie', 'Iggy Pop and Others 1974-1981', a memoir of his years as a musician in New York in the 1970s.
