The Book of Forgotten Secrets

Book
2009
Written by Stephen Minch
Work of Stephen Minch
185 pages (Hardcover), published by Hermetic Press
Illustrated with drawings by James Howells
Language: English
21 entries
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Stephen Minch Hijacked Voices
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Stephen Minch The Lovecraftian Ceremonies introduction to reprint of Lovecraftian Ceremonies
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Stephen Minch Introduction to the Ceremony on performing those ceremonies, story-telling magic
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Stephen Minch The Setting
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Stephen Minch The Stigmata of Cthulhu stigmata marks appear on skin of spectators, with sound effects from hidden sound device, stooge faints
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Variations
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Stephen Minch The Fungi from Yuggoth ceremony where life from another sphere is created, fungi from chosen star appears in pan, chemical
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Stephen Minch The Eye of Alhazred chosen symbol appears chemically on paper, with fire
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Stephen Minch Pickman's Model stain appears on table under statue, then statue moves and disappears
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Stephen Minch The Silver Key key turns on hand, then on spectator's hand, the key on chain swings by itself over selected disk, then key is wrapped in paper and vanishes in flash of fire
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Stephen Minch Dreams in the Witch-House water turns to blood (chemical) and back to water when stirred with a bone, coin travels to cloth bag in locked box, case moves on table uses Joseph Fenichel's "The Crawler"
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Stephen Minch The Music of Erich Zann séance performance, metronome starts moving and violin and music box start playing under glass bowl
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Stephen Minch On the Material "It was eight years after the publication of Lovecraftian Ceremonies that I first performed any of its routines."
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Stephen Minch Beyond the Mythos intro to second part
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Stephen Minch The Ceremony of Atman-Ka toad and obelisk appears in drumhead production tube, tube clean at end
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  • "The Grimoire of the Mages" (Tony Andruzzi, 1978)
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Stephen Minch Introduction to next Piece on Tony Andruzzi and his Scroll
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Stephen Minch The Stele of Khepera paper rubbing of stele with six hieroglyphs, chosen glyph appears in previously empty box (watch box)
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  • "The Legendary Scroll" of Masklyn ye Mage
Inspired by
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Stephen Minch Introduction to next Piece on Genii issue 666
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Stephen Minch Apocalypse Later nine cards with persons on them laid out, spectator moves according to instructions, final resting place predicted, credit information on the parity instruction game
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  • Genii, April 1992
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Stephen Minch A Vivisection of the Bizarre "Appendix I"
history of bizarre magick
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Stephen Minch Before the Door Appendix II - Uninvited Collaboration with Franz Kafka
story
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Stephen Minch Bibliography of Sources original publication sources of some of the material
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Data entered by Denis Behr, August 2018.