Goêtic Atavisms
Goêtic Atavisms is designed to be an uncompromising and challenging book.
Written in mutual exchange between practitioners Frater Acher and Craig Slee, two radical views and explorations of applied goêteia emerge. This tête-bêche book can be read from both sides; behind one cover containing the chapters by Acher, behind the other those by Craig Slee, and where they meet in the middle a preface by none other than Frater U∴D∴.
In their own unique voices, the authors draw the reader in and call on them to bring goêteia to life in their own flesh. Over twelve chapters, packed with historic detail and practical experimentations, the reader is guided to take a fresh look at such diverse bodies of goêtic work as Zosimos of Panopolis, Germanic and Old Iranian folklore, Goethe’s Faust and the Earth Spirit, Austin Osman Spare's œuvre, as well as modern forms of corporeality such as pornography, tattoo culture, and bodily disability. Goêtic Atavisms was written not only to be a sensual experience, but to facilitate magical touch.
Our hardcover edition is a sewn bound hardback with Wave Storm printed endpapers, covered in Silktouch Thermo Yana Grey with silver gloss foil lettering on front and spine and two-toned grey head and tail bands. Text is printed on 90gsm Munken Premium White. 350 copies strict. Please note the deluxe edition cannot be ordered through Hadean Press.
Goêtic Atavisms
Frater Acher & Craig Slee
Artwork by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
978-1-915933-18-8 (Hardback full colour)
978-1-915933-19-5 (Paperback full colour)
178mm x 254mm
270 pages.
Published July 2023.
