Robin Odell – Jack The Ripper

Robin Odell – Jack The Ripper, In Fact And Fiction (Mayflower-Dell, Sept. 1966)

Blurb:

In the autumn of 1888 the streets of London were streets of terror. The cause – a series of mysterious and apparently motiveless murders. Respectable citizens cowered behind shuttered windows and multi-locked doors. Ironically, however, it was not the respectable who were in danger. The victims were all drawn from the trade which necessity still compelled to haunt dark alleys and doorways at dead of night – the prostitutes.

Theories on the identity of the murderer have been many and various: that he was a fashionable doctor, even that he was a she – a midwife. Robin Odell has produced an absorbing factual reconstruction of all the crimes and a brilliant new theory, based on modern methods of detection, to solve the greatest mystery in British criminology. Most readers will accept his theory as the long-sought answer to a baffling real-life whodunit: as the most likely epitaph on a terror known as Jack The Ripper, In Fact And Fiction.

Brian Ball – Witchfinder: The Evil at Monteine

Brian Ball – Witchfinder: The Evil at Monteine (Mayflower, 1977)

“When Richard was offered the chance to work for millionaire recluse Simon Miaolo, Anne was pleased for her fiancé’s career.

But as time went by, he seemed to become a prisoner at Monteine Castle, Miaolo’s feudal headquarters.

Slowly, Anne began to realize that Richard – and she – were being manipulated by a master of Evil in a hideous satanic ritual of sacrifice and renewal as old as time.

That was when, like others before her, she turned to Ruane the Witchfinder. A man who would listen. A man waging his own private war against the Devil.”

Thanks to Severance of Vault for the cover scan and blurb (again!) 

Brian Ball – Witchfinder: The Mark of the Beast

Brian Ball – Witchfinder: The Mark of the Beast (Mayflower, 1976)

 

“There was Evil in the air at the seance – Evil that was to transform their lives. Janice said she had not changed but there were signs Alan could not ignore. Like the strange mark on her hand, the naked wanderings in the moonlight, the unusual sexual demands. Like the blood stains on her clothes…

And so Alan turned to ex-priest Ruane, a man drained of self-respect, a drunkard, a reject, but still the only man who would listen. A man who knew the reality of the Devil.”

Thanks to Severance of Vault for the cover scan and blurb.

John Symonds – The Great Beast

John Symonds – The Great Beast: The Life And Magick Of Aleister Crowley (Mayflower 1973: Richard Clay, 1971)

I am the Beast, I am the Word of Aeon. I spend my soul in blazing torrents that roar into Night, streams that with molten tongues hiss as they lick. I am a hell of a Holy Guru.