About the Author

Robert Fitzgerald is a native Californian, and a writer on subjects of Thelema, Magical Philosophy, and the work of Elizabethan magus John Dee. His previous work, A Gathering of Masks, concerned the esoteric intelligences of Aleister Crowley's work Liber 231, and was published in 2009. A Rose Veiled in Black is the first work he has co-edited for Three Hands Press. Daniel A. Schulke is the author of a number of books on occult philosophy and esoteric herbalism, including Veneficium: Magic Witchcraft and the Poison Path. He is the editor of the journal Wyrd, and of the Western Esotericism in Context series for Three Hands Press. Manon Hedenborg White holds a PhD in the History of Religions from Uppsala University (Sweden). Awarded an international postdoctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Södertörn University (Sweden). She is currently a guest researcher at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores issues of gender and sexuality in modern Western esotericism, occultism, and new religious movements. She is the author of The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism, 2019).

Erik Davis is the author of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Nomad Codes, and the cult classic Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. Davis currently teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He writes the Substack publication Burning Shore and has completed a history of LSD blotter art for the MIT Press. Together with Daniel Schulke he is the editor of Daimon and Pharmakon (Three Hands Press, 2013).



Gordan Djurdjevic holds a PhD from the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor, with Henrik Bogdan, of the collection of critical essays Occultism in a Global Perspective; and the author of Masters of Magical Powers, and India and the Occult. Djurdjevic teaches as a Sessional Instructor in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University.