A Pagan News Anthology
Edited by Phil Hine & Rodney Orpheus
£25 / £45
Available as an unlimited paperback with flaps & a special hardback edition of 300, featuring a bookplate signed by the editors.
ISBN: 9781907222931
656 pp. | 165 x 221mm
Containing 50+ original archive images and new illustrations by Krent Able
The first 100 copies bought from SAP will include an exclusive postcard.
Available late January 2025
Delinquent Elementals: A Pagan News Anthology collects some of the
finest articles, news reports, interviews, and humour that appeared
in this singular publication, providing a fascinating glimpse into the
British occult and Pagan countercultures of the 1980s and early ’90s.
This collection, newly annotated by the editors, contains a plethora of essays, commentary, and a wide selection of evolving knowledge and insight into occult practices, while the list of contributors is a veritable directory of new wave British occultism. Delinquent Elementals reveals how magical practitioners interacted with the wider culture, political activism, and the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights and recognition. The zine’s 36 issues also charted the arrival, and devastating impact, of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic as it landed on UK shores and began a systematic assault on its occult communities.
Wonderfully unpretentious, absurdly funny and deeply insightful, this is
the definitive guide to the radical publication that reflected and reshaped
late-twentieth century British occultism.
Phil Hine is a British occult author and researcher. He has gained international recognition through his books Condensed Chaos, Prime Chaos and The Pseudonomicon. His most recent work is Queerying Occultures (Original Falcon Press, 2023).
Rodney Orpheus is a Northern Irish musician, record producer, writer, and technologist. He is known for his work with the musical group The Cassandra Complex and for his books Abrahadabra: Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thelemic Magick and Grimoire of Aleister Crowley.
