E. Howard Hunt, Watergate conspirator and CIA agent, wrote many excellent hardboiled crime and spy novels. As David St John he wrote Diabolus in 1971. A hugely enjoyable lurid occult/spy thriller featuring drugs, satanic cults and sex orgies.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/05/e-howard-hunts-diabolus.html

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She Who Returns by Audrey Driscoll

“Driscoll blends learning and esoterica with complex characters, creating a story that evokes classic tales of occult scholarship without any of the dryness that can creep in.”

More thoughts: https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/she-who-returns-by-audrey-driscoll/

#lovecraft #mythos #OccultThriller #horror #UrbanFantasy

Simon Iff Stories and Other Works, an excellent collection of occult detective tales by Aleister Crowley (yes, that Aleister Crowley).

They're rather unique. There are no supernatural elements whatsoever. Not even paranormal phenomena. These are all very human crimes. But Simon is a magus and he uses Crowley’s philosophy/religion to solve the crimes.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2013/05/aleister-crowleys-simon-iff-stories-and.html

#occultdetectives #occultthriller #occultthrillers #vintagethrillers #vintagecrime #occult #AleisterCrowley

Dennis Wheatley’s The Ka of Gifford Hillary (1956), one of the “black magic” novels for which he was most famous. While there is no black magic as such in this book there are certainly supernatural, or at least paranormal, forces at work here.

An excellent occult thriller with some genuine horror and some sleaze.

Wheatley was truly one of the great thriller writers.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-ka-of-gifford-hillary.html

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