Abraham Merritt – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

From Montague Rhodes James to Ari Aster's “Hereditary”

Published on: October 31, 2019 Last updated on: October 31, 2019 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Cinema and TV, Esotericism, Italian Literature, Characters, Guests Book

In some of the most terrifying stories of Montague Rhodes James emerges the Hoffmannian-Ligottian theme of man as a puppet or marionette, at the mercy of demonic entities that hide behind the scenes of reality: particularly successful is "The Haunted Doll's House", which has partially inspired by Ari Aster's film “Hereditary”.

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Jacques Bergier and "Magic Realism": a new paradigm for the atomic age

Published on: June 28 2019 Last updated on: November 18, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Italian Literature, Mito, Characters, Guests Book, Science, Theosophy

Recently translated into Italian by the types of Il Palindromo, "In praise of the Fantastic" by the French writer and journalist Jacques Bergier, best known for having written with Louis Pauwels "The morning of the wizards", provides an analysis of the work of some "magic writers" at the time unknown to the French-speaking public (including Tolkien, Machen and Stanislav Lem), aimed at defining a new paradigm for the XNUMXst century that can combine science and science fiction with the ontological category of the "sacred".

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With Abraham Merritt on the Vessel of Ishtar

Published on: October 7, 2018 Last updated on: January 20 2021 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Italian Literature, Characters, Guests Book

Thanks to the types de the Palindrome, Italian readers now have the opportunity to read the original and complete edition of "The ship of Ishtar" by Abraham Merritt, an initiatory novel focused on the Mystery of the 'coincidentia oppositorum'.

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