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‘MAD AS TITS ON A PIRANHA’
‘Value of Grant: as paranormal pit-canary and as point-man, Kenneth Grant has been prepared to roll his sleeves up and plunge elbow deep in the "Qlipothic slime" of his imagination, benefiting those of us who'd rather watch from a safe distance. In amongst the vast amount of tentacled and slithering bug-eyed junk he trawls up in his nets there have been pearls of an impressive size and lustre. It is hard to name another single living individual who has done more to shape contemporary western thinking with regard to Magic. If we should dismiss him and his work, on what grounds should we do so? That he's dark? That he's as mad as tits on a piranha? That he's weird? As if the world of the occult was the last place one should expect to find darkness, insanity or weirdness. Rather, we should recognise Grant as a pioneer, if only by the arrows in his back; a fabulous arcane adventurer of an old school that's long since disappeared, if indeed it was ever "really" there; more a successor to John Silence, Simon Iff, Carnacki and the gang than a mere Crowley acolyte.’
ALAN MOORE - on occultist Kenneth Grant author of the Typhonian Trilogies
Art: Austin Osman Spare and Steffi Grant
