The occult in art

This chapter focuses on Umberto Boccioni’s 1913 painting Elasticity and his response to the ether in both its scientific and its occult contexts. The absence of translations of Boc...

The weird—and weirdly delightful—adventures of fiction’s first occult detective. Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective”—that i...

‘Thinking with Poison’ explores the fascination of Shakespeare and his contemporaries with poison and poisoning, as a secretive and therefore especially heinous form of murder, oft...

Thomas Wijck’s painted alchemical laboratories were celebrated in his day as "artful" and "ingenious." They fell into obscurity along with their subject, as alchemy came to be view...