Aleister Crowley was a notorious English occultist in the first half of the twentieth century – once dubbed the wickedest man in the world. Magician. Writer. Prophet. Charlatan. Take your pick – Crowley was everything. So, let’s look at ten weird facts about Aleister Crowley. Aleister Crowley made himself invisible In a libel case against…
Rasputin is well known as the evil monk who allegedly exerted a hypnotic influence over the last Tsar of Russia – and his family – but was then murdered by jealous aristocrats. A familiar enough story! But was Rasputin an LGBT holy man? Did he have a gay relationship with a Russian prince? And was…
Aleister Crowley was the High Priest of Satanism but was he really the wickedest man in the world and did he occasionally do something good?
How did the artist Walter Sickert come to be a suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings? TV historian Tony McMahon investigates.
