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Post by Michael Staley on Mar 16, 2016 11:42:50 GMT
With Beyond the Mauve Zone due to be published at the end of this month (March), and The Ninth Arch due to be published later this year, some may be wondering what is to be published next.
Outside the Circles of Time will shortly be out of print, and will be reprinted after The Ninth Arch. We'll also be taking the opportunity to republish Against the Light. Beyond that, though, two new volumes are planned.
The first is the collected essays, articles etc such as those published in the International Times, Man, Myth & Magic and the like. This will also include some unpublished items such as a Foreword for Liber Aleph written in the late 1940s.
The second is a volume of selected correspondence. Grant maintained a rich and copious cofrrespondence throughout his publishing career, and some of the material therein is profound and enlightening, deserving of publication. More details of this project will be announced as it develops.
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Post by BSh on May 15, 2016 17:30:58 GMT
... The second is a volume of selected correspondence. Grant maintained a rich and copious correspondence throughout his publishing career, and some of the material therein is profound and enlightening, deserving of publication. More details of this project will be announced as it develops. I'm very much looking forward to seeing these planned two new volumes, Michael, and congratulations with your achievement to keep all of the volumes of the Typhonan Trilogies in print. Hopefully reprints of Zos Speaks! and Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare will also be able to appear to keep them company on the bookshelf at some point also. Has there been a change of outlook here with regard to the above though, as I seem to remember your responding to an enquiry I believe on the Lashtal forum a while back that there were no plans to publish either a Collected or Selected Letters, and that you didn't have any intention of doing so (because of certain difficulties regarding obtaining of permissions, etc.)? I've been led to understand that one of Kenneth Grant's pre-requisites for joining the Typhonian Order was (is) the submission of a magical diary kept over the course of nine months. Given this, I take it he would have valued the practice and therefore diligently have maintained his own magical record himself. This being so, are such diaires which he maintained extant and is there any likelihood of their also consequently being published by Starfire in due course, perhaps along similar lines to the splendidly produced The Magical Record of The Beast 666 which he himself edited and annotated (along with John Symonds)? |
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Post by Michael Staley on May 18, 2016 15:45:31 GMT
Yes, there has been a change of outlook. A few years ago I was thinking in terms of including the letters to which Grant was replying, and thus I would have had to obtained the permission of those correspondents or their heirs. Now we'll be publishing only Grant's replies, which makes things easier. Additionally, I had not at the time been through the surviving correspondence. Now that I have, I realise how much of great value there is amongst the letters and how worthy of being made available some of them are.
Your understanding about the maintenance of a Magical Record is correct. Unfortunately, the bulk of diaries of Kenneth Grant have not survived, beyond the pocket diaries from which the endpapers for the recent Trilogies republications have been created.
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Post by BSh on May 19, 2016 13:01:29 GMT
Yes, there has been a change of outlook. A few years ago I was thinking in terms of including the letters to which Grant was replying, and thus I would have had to obtained the permission of those correspondents or their heirs. Now we'll be publishing only Grant's replies, which makes things easier. Additionally, I had not at the time been through the surviving correspondence. Now that I have, I realise how much of great value there is amongst the letters and how worthy of being made available some of them are. This is encouraging news and I am very glad that you reconsidered your position. I imagine that even though the other correspondents' letters won't be included (and I can understand the difficulties which would be involved) I am sure this can be got around by writing a short synopsis of their contents, outlining the main issues in case KG's replies on their own don't clear up any uncertainty about what may have been written by the other person. (I also think it would only be a very small proportion of people who would quibble about giving permission, but it does happen and can't be ignored.)
Your understanding about the maintenance of a Magical Record is correct. Unfortunately, the bulk of diaries of Kenneth Grant have not survived, beyond the pocket diaries from which the endpapers for the recent Trilogies republications have been created.
This is terrible news and I shudder to think of the possible loss to humanity of these irreplaceable documents. I feel dreadful. How can it have happened that they all (as far as I can tell) managed to disappear? Was some terrible accident involved, a fire perhaps (curiously often the cause of these sort of magical disasters)? |
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Post by Gregory Peters on May 19, 2016 16:52:45 GMT
Briliant Michael! This will be an invaluable resource. From what small snippets I have seen from people over the years in their correspondence with Grant, a collection of this sort is truly welcome! |
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