Delinquent Elementals

Published by Strange Attractor Press, this 656-page anthology collects articles, interviews, and commentary from Pagan News, a singular British occult publication spanning 36 issues during the 1980s-early 1990s. Edited by occult author Phil Hine and musician-technologist Rodney Orpheus, the collection documents how magical practitioners engaged with counterculture, political activism, LGBTQ+ liberation struggles, and occult knowledge evolution. Featured contributors represent influential figures in new wave British occultism. The anthology critically charts the Satanic Ritual Abuse moral panic’s devastating impact on UK occult communities while maintaining the original zine’s irreverent humor and intellectual rigor. Newly annotated by editors with 50+ archive images and new illustrations by Krent Able, this definitive collection demonstrates how radical underground publishing reflected and transformed late-twentieth-century British occultism and its intersections with broader counter-cultural movements.

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