Hadean Press
Hadean Press Limited is a UK based small press producing some of the most exciting titles in modern occultism, publishing academic and independent scholarship in the areas of folklore, folk magic, and spellbooks. Their much-loved Guides to the Underworld series combines the aesthetic of a popular pamphlet with a depth of praxis rarely found in trade publications, and the infrequent journal Conjure Codex focuses on spirit work, the grimoire traditions, and magic in general, be it ancient or modern, Eastern or Western, New World or Old World, theoretical or anecdotal, original or translation, practical or historical, monotheist or pagan.
Hadean Press was established in 2008 in West Yorkshire, UK, at the beginning of the solar year. Never oblivious to rising talent, in the years since its founding Hadean has introduced up and coming international authors to a discerning public, as well as bringing new offerings from more established but non-establishment authors, including Jake Stratton-Kent, David Rankine, Dr Alexander Cummins, and many more. From Scandinavian trolldom to Brazilian Quimbanda, Renaissance necromancy or the art and craft of the goes, the Hadean catalogue caters to practitioners of magic as well to those curious about its long history.
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Kuzen Azaka Mede is a powerful and loyal ally from the Djouba nation of Lwa. In Kuzen Azaka Mede: Engaging with the Lwa of Work, Labor, and Land, novices and practitioners alike will find an in-depth discussion about specific terminology related to as well as various mysteries within the nation, as well as a thorough groundwork for working with these spirits.
The figure of a skull wearing sunglasses and a top hat is ubiquitous in popular culture, but often misrepresented and misunderstood. Guede et Mô: A Workbook unpacks some of the myths surrounding Papa Guede, the Bawons and the Guede Lwa, describing who these Lwa are and how they are served in Haitian Vodou.
The first English translation of The Supreme Black, Red and Infernal Magic of the Chaldeans and Egyptians, being the companion volume to the Book of Saint Cyprian, is an early 20th-century grimoire containing spells, hexes, and other infernal secrets of magic.
Goetic Evocation was the first (and only) workbook ever specifically designed to be used in conjunction with the popular grimoire known as the Goetia, which is the first book of The Lesser Key of Solomon. It is an efficient working manual for the ritual magician who is interested in properly practicing the system outlined in the Goetia.
An Obscure 17th Century Grimoire Text for Conjuring Spirits to Reveal Hidden Treasure, Derived from a Manuscript of the Mystical Spanish City of Salamanca translated from the German into English, edited, with footnotes and introduction by Steve Savedow.
In The Way of Demons: Shadow and Opposition in Taoist Thought, Ritual and Alchemy, Simon Bastian presents the Yin aspect of Taoist practice and theory, in which the world of demons is an inventive and challenging resource.
In Orphic Hymns Grimoire, Sara L. Mastros transforms the devotional hymns of Orpheus, the oracular hero of ancient Greece, into a functional, working grimoire for contemporary magicians.
In Tools of the Greater Key author and illustrator S. Aldarnay has endeavoured to render the images found in the popular Mathers edition of the text clearly and cleanly, so that they might be of greater use to the modern magician, either as physical tools, or as a way of understanding the symbolic and ritualistic virtues of the objects contained within this famous magical text.
Author and illustrator S. Aldarnay presents each of the Pentacles given in the Key of Solomon, precisely redrawn and with explanations of the divine names, the names of spirits, as well as the vesicles in English, Latin and Hebrew, in order to make the individual’s use of the seals more effective.
Imperatrix Æterna: Magical Stories of the Queen of Heaven includes several stories of Mary’s manifested miracles in the Catholic tradition, originally written by Pope Celestine V, the late thirteenth century monk who founded the Celestine branch of the Benedictine order, here lovingly translated and introduced by Fr Robert Nixon, OSB.
Walking the Spectral Path is a personal journey into the world of ghosts by Paolo Sammut, a UK based researcher primarily interested in esoteric and paranormal subjects.
In Obeah: A Sorcerous Ossuary, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold teases open this Caribbean mystery and reveals a crooked path into the hidden world of Papa Bones and Sasabonsam with a short monograph concerning the history of this incoherent cult and the ways in which power is bestowed upon and wielded by the Obeahman.
In Seven Crossroads of Night, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold sets forth the foundation for Quimbanda in theory and practice, presenting a blueprint for the themes that generate the variety of ways Quimbanda can be approached.
Using as inspiration José Leitão’s work on the Iberian tradition of Saint Cyprian, artist Natalia Lee Forty has created a unique cartomancy deck meant to enter into conversation with the longstanding Lenormand and Sibilla tradition.
In this collection of two of Sédir’s works, Austin Avison introduces Paul Sédir, situating him in the exciting period of societal and cultural changes during the pre-war years in Europe, and provides a translation of Dreams: Theories—Practice—Interpretation and Magic Letters.
22 Paths of Inperfection: a flight manual for single-winged angels is a guide for traversing the corridors of doubt, depression, and elation.
In The Coimbra Book of Saint Cyprian we offer the English translation and Portuguese transcript of Ms. 2559, a Cyprian book of treasure-hunting.
A translation with extensive commentary of the Livraria Económica edition of O Grande livro de S.Cypriano ou thesouro do feiticeiro, present in the Portuguese National Library in Lisbon — a book so dangerous it needs to be kept in chains.
Presented as a sequel to his first work, The Book of St. Cyprian: The Sorcerer’s Treasure, the Opuscula Cypriani is José Leitão’s most extensive and detailed exposition of the tradition of the Portuguese Cyprian Books to date.
In Clearing the Waters: A Monograph on Saint Cyprian Divination from the 17th to the 19th Century, author José Leitão collects an extensive corpus of divinatory and sorcerous practices from the records of the Portuguese Inquisition to unravel the mystery of Cyprian’s seafaring incantation, and how it has come to be associated with contemporary Cyprian divination.
The Bibliotheca Valenciana contains translations of three of Jerónimo Cortez’s great works: the Non Plus Ultra Do Lunario, the Physiognomy and Various Secrets of Nature, and the Treatise of the Animals, presented and compiled for the first time into one English language volume.
The Magical Amulets of the Ancient Sages and Bibliotheca Necromantica by Trithemius includes his compilation on the properties of magical amulets and an astonishing insight into the occult literature in circulation in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
This ‘Guide to Grimoiring’ renders the grimoires comprehensible and ‘user friendly’ in a time where they are regaining their deserved prestige as monuments of a tradition preceding the Christian era while nonetheless rooted in it.
The Rosicrucifixion is a sideways look at matters Christian from angles which, while appealing to many occultists and heretics, may be as appalling to many supposed Christians.
A workbook of English Qaballa by Jake Stratton-Kent, with an introduction by Lon Milo DuQuette and cover art by Stuart Littlejohn.
Pandemonium: A Discordant Concordance of Diverse Spirit Catalogues is truly a first of its kind, and a necessity for the further development of traditional magic in a modern context.
Thus Spake Magnus Dictus is the collected writings of Jake Stratton-Kent first published in The Eqiunox: British Journal of Thelema issues 1-8, spanning the years 1988-1994 and faithfully reproduced in a facsimile edition.
First published in The Equinox: British Journal of Thelema, Volume VII 9-11 as ‘Liturgical Approaches to Invocation & Evocation’, Goetic Liturgy concerns the art of invoking gods in order to conjure spirits by “the Egyptian formula”.
In Queen of the Seven Crossroads, history and myth come together to create and continuously develop the definitions and the interpretations about who or what the Queens of Quimbanda are.
A personal, practical, and historical work, Maria de Padilla: Queen of the Souls is a detailed account of the life and death of the Spanish queen María de Padilla, her rise to popularity in the witchcraft of Spain and Portugal, and her later migration with the exiled witches to Brazil where she would become the queen of the souls in Quimbanda.