This database contains all the reviews of the new publications and of the "classic" books that we have recommended to the reader over the years:
- The secrets of “Dune”. Mysticism and psychedelia of the Fremen people (P. Riberi/G. Genta, Secrets of Dune, Mimesis 2024).
- The “Caucasian Yoga Manuscript” by Count Colonna Walewski: an esoteric and literary enigma (part I) (Venexia 2023).
- Shirley Jackson, the witch next door (Adelphi).
- D'Annunzio's Bestiary: the Unicorn and the Chimera (Gabriele d'Annunzio: Sparks of the Mallet).
- D'Annunzio's bestiary: the spider and the «goat dimònia» (Gabriele d'Annunzio: Sparks of the Mallet).
- The goddess of the Jews (Raphael Patai, Venexia 2023).
- “Fossil Legend”: fossils and early North American geomythology (Adrienne Mayor: The First Fossil Hunters + Fossil Legends of the First Americans).
- “Yoga” by Emmanuel Carrère: I meditate, therefore I am (Adelphi).
- The island of the dead: from Böcklin's visions to Fabrizio Valenza's novel.
- HP Lovecraft's “The Pickman's Model”: dissection by a nightmarish artist.
- The headless horseman. Washington Irving, the dark face of America.
- Arthur Machen's "Other Reality" (Dagon Press, 2022).
- Escape from the prison of the mind: "Gormenghast" by Mervyn Peake (Adelphi).
- Pan's Awakening in Victorian-Edwardian England: "The Garden of # 19" by Edgar Jepson (Dagon Press, 2022).
- On the "snow-white" Giant that stands out on the horizon at the end of EA Poe's Gordon Pym.
- The "Sulphurous Gothic" by Leo Perutz.
- “Dune”: an esoteric analysis. Cosmism and the latent powers of man (Frank Herbert, 1965).
- For an anthropological reading of the "Journey into the Matamonia of Esagro Noroi", by Lucio Besana (Stories from the crimson series, Hypnos Editions 2021).
- The diabolical conferences of Arthur Christopher Benson (The closed window, Dagon Press 2020).
- Pierre Hadot and the spiritual exercises in antiquity (Einaudi, 1981).
- The first Nietzsche and the birth of the tragedy (1872)
- The god of crossroads: no place is without genius (Stefano Cascavilla, Ex òrma 2021).
- “Passport to Magonia”: from folklore to alien myth (Venexia 2021).
- “Indomite”: the witches' tales of Simona Friuli (Vocifuorescena 2021).
- Robert E. Howard, the gentle giant of Cross Plains ("Zothique n. 7", Dagon Press 2021).
- Rhodes: in the shadow of the Colossus (Andrea Guido Silvi, Rhodes: the smile of the Colossus, Italian S&S 2020).
- In the dark meanders of Carcosa (Marco Maculotti, Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective, Mimesis, 2021)
- Sarban, the pilgrim from the heart of darkness (Zubrowka. A Christmas story e The call of the horn, Adelphi 2020 and 2015).
- “Mephistopheles and the Androgyne”. The mystery of totality according to Mircea Eliade (Mediterranean, 1971).
- Conversations with Mircea Eliade (Mircea Eliade. Myths of origins and cosmic rhythms. Conversations 1973 - 1984; Bietti, 2020).
- Venus in fur: Sacher-Masoch's medusea antimoral (1870)
- "The return of the Star Peoples". The X-Files of the Indian Reserves (Venexia, 2020).
- Muses, sirens and black stars: the cruel tales of Carlo H. De 'Medici (Cliquot, 2020).
- The esoteric Rilke of the "Sonnets to Orpheus" (1922)
- Dorothy Carrington's dream Corsica ("Granite Island", 1971).
- “Follettiana”: 14 classic tales from all over the world about fairy beings (ABEditor, 2020).
- Science and fantasy: “Etidorhpa”, John Uri Lloyd's Hollow Earth (A. Scarabelli).
- On the perennial reality of the myth: "The secret wisdom of bees" by Pamela Lyndon Travers (LiberiLibri, 2019).
- Rudyard Kipling's “Brazilian notebooks” (New Berti Publishing, 2017).
- “Ombra”, the chivalrous arabesque of the poet who anticipated the fantasy-quest and… Jung (Sarah Dana Loring, "Shadow"; Dagon Press, 2020).
- The "Atlantic Crossing" and Ernst Jünger's look at Brazil (Guanda, 2017).
- In the Realms of the Unreal with Henry Darger and the Vivian Girls.
- Robert Louis Stevenson "in the South Seas" (Tarka, 2015).
- In the beginning was the Word: the fantasy of Philip K. Dick in "Ubik".
- The Saga of Gunnar, the idiot of Keldugnúpur (Hyperborea, 2020).
- "Zothique n. 4 ”: Arthur Machen and the panic charm of the uncanny (Dagon Press, Summer 2020).
- The mask of the Daimon: Gustav Meyrink and the "Metamorphosis of the blood" (Bietti, 2020).
- The Waves of Destiny: The Tales of the North Seas by Jonas Lie (Dagon Press, 2020).
- “The physics of angels”: dialogue between a visionary biologist and a rebellious theologian (Tlon, 2016).
- “Beyond the Real”: for a Metaphysics of the Fantastic (GoG editions, 2020).
- William Hope Hodgson's Journey at the End of the Night ("X's Dream", Il Palindomo, 2020)
- “The Traveler of Agartha”: the magical realism of Abel Posse (Three Publishers, 2009).
- That symbolic parallelism between Mircea Eliade and Emil Cioran (“A secret complicity”, Adelphi, 2019).
- The Fantastic and the shipwreck of reality: “Looks on the Unknown. Decameron of the Mystery ”for 2020 (Bietti, 2020).
- Terence McKenna and the "food of the gods" (Plan B editions, 2019).
- Chronicles of the End: from Machen's “Terror” to Lovecraft's “Color”.
- Terror and Ecstasy: Arthur Machen's "Hill of Dreams" (Il Palindrome, 2017).
- "Beyond the real" (GoG editions, 2020).
- From Stonehenge to Rapa Nui: Donald Wandrei and the return of the Titans ("The stone giants", 1932).
- The esoteric futurism of the Russian Cosmists (George M. Young, Three Publishers, 2017).
- Spiritual autobiography (Julius Evola, Mediterranee, 2019).
- The "Great Game" by Jacques Bergier (“I am not a legend”, Bietti, 2019).
- From Montague Rhodes James to Ari Aster's “Hereditary”.
- The supernatural horror of Montague Rhodes James.
- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, adventurer of the unconscious.
- JRR Tolkien and the fall of Arthur.
- WB Yeats, William Blake and the sacred power of the imagination (Mimesis, 2015).
- "The House on the Abyss" by William Hope Hodgson.
- Jacques Bergier and "Magic Realism": a new paradigm for the atomic age (“In praise of the fantastic”, Il Palindromo, 2018).
- The pilgrimage to the subtle body: a little-big book by Annick de Souzenelle (“Go towards you: the divine vocation of man”, Edizioni Tlon, 2016).
- Archetypal Lycanthropy: "Man Becomes Wolf" by Robert Eisler.
- Sauron, the Demiurge of Middle-earth (JJR Tolkien).
- On the "duende" by García Lorca and the "spirit of the earth" by Ernst Jünger (Federico García Lorca, “Game and theory of the duende”).
- Pinocchio in Scandinavia: the roots of the fable in the Kalevala and in the Edda (Carlo Collodi: “The Adventures of Pinocchio”).
- Colin Wilson & Jacques Bergier: that is, the conspiracy of history (Colin Wilson: "The parasites of the mind" & Jacques Bergier: "The cursed books").
- Colin Wilson: "The Outsider".
- Fernando Pessoa between politics and prophecy ("Politics and prophecy. Notes and fragments. 1910-1935", Bietti, 2018).
- "Weird" Far West (GM Mollar: “The mysteries of the Far West”, Il Punto d'Incontro, 2018).
- The lonely path of cinnabar (Julius Evola: “The journey of cinnabar”, Mediterranee, 2018).
- Eyes, puppets and doppelgänger: the "uncanny" in "Der Sandmann" by ETA Hoffmann (I).
- Reality, illusion, magic and witchcraft: the "uncanny" in ETA Hoffmann's "Nocturnes" (II)
- With Abraham Merritt on the Vessel of Ishtar (Il Palindrome, 2018).
- Gustav Meyrink at the frontiers of the occult (Arkthos, 2018).
- “Oniricon”: HP Lovecraft, the Dream and the Elsewhere (Bietti, 2017).
- Ioan P. Culianu: "game" and Magic in the Renaissance (Lindau, 2017).
- Paolo Riberi: the “Gnostic Renaissance” in modern cinema (Lindau, 2017).
- Arthur Machen and the awakening of the Great God Pan (Three Publishers, 2016).
- Charles Baudelaire: life, work, genius (Bietti, 2016).
- Ferdinand Ossendowski: Beasts, Men, Gods (Mediterranean Editions, 2000).
- Rudyard Kipling's India between folklore, terror and wonder (“Anglo-Indian tales of mystery and terror”, Edizioni Theoria, 1985).
- South and Magic: the South between archaisms and historical precariousness (Ernesto de Martino).