This issue of Correspondences marks the journal's tenth year. We'd be lying if we said that
we were certain we'd make it this far. Jimmy Elwing and Aren Roukema founded the journal …

HG Wells is sometimes credited with a stylistic rupture that separated science fiction from
other fantastic genres, eschewing magical elements in favor of empiricist and rationalist …

Magic and fiction are closely related cultural practices in that they constantly challenge what
is perceived to be possible, legitimate, desirable, or real. The preceding chapters in this …

Over the last decade, esotericism studies has witnessed a distinct literary turn, as more and
more of the field's primarily religious studies-based researchers have recognized the value …

This chapter will aim at establishing the work of Kenneth Grant (1924–2011), one time
secretary of the magus Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), as an excellent example of fictional …

This article examines the sources that underlie the best known of all the rituals that have
emerged from the modern esoteric revival: the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram …

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By exploring the intersections of the esoteric and the islamicate in a series of 20th century
literary works from disparate global locations, this dissertation maps out a constellation of …

Nineteenth-century mental science was open to a wide spectrum of hypotheses, supported
by the testimonial evidence of an equally diverse group of researchers. A long arc can be …

This study uncovers a link between sound patterns and ritualistic language in Charles
Williams' novels through an analysis of the relationship between type of sound and content …