07/09/2026
⚡ NETHERWOOD book launch. Author Antony Clayton will be in store on Sunday October 4th to sign a new, revised edition of his book Netherwood. Please register your interest by reserving a free ticket. Link below.
🔮It tells the story of the remarkable Hastings guesthouse that around the middle of the last century was home to visiting politicians, scientists, intellectuals and radicals.
✨It was also where the master magician Aleister Crowley, so-called 'Wickedest Man in the World', spent his final years, playing chess, injecting drugs and receiving an impressive cast of visitors, including Kenneth Grant, Gerald Gardner, Augustus John, James Laver and Richard Ellmann.
📖 Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister Crowley is published by Accumulator Press
💥 Contributors include: A Gentleman of Hastings (Antony Clayton)�Essay: Frater Amor Fati (Gary Lachman)�Essay: English Heretic (Andy Sharp)�Foreword: Anok Pe (David Tibet)
🌊This new revised limited paperback edition of 500 contains two additional articles about Aleister Crowley’s youthful chalk climbing achievements at Beachy Head in East Sussex and over 40 colour and black and white illustrations. Each 260-page copy also contains an envelope of enclosures including facsimiles of brochures for the Netherwood guesthouse, postcards and a bookmark.