Ultraculture

Since hearing about it last week (via Brooklyn’s new occult shop Catland), I’ve watched this early 70s B-movie “masterpiece” several times—I would say that it’s of its time, but I’m amazed that “Simon King of the Witches” was ever made, even in psychedelic 1971. [Read more...]

Browsing the Z call numbers, I found a great book on the history of printing (The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Eisenstein). I ran through the index and found a bit on alchemy. It turns out to be Francis Bacon complaining about occultism and alchemy—not on the grounds of content, or about... [Read more...]

We’re proud to present the first Ultraculture podcast! For Episode One, I sat down with the legendary (and legendarily confrontational) science fiction and horror author John Shirley, author of over 30 books and 10 screenplays—including The Other End, Everything is Broken, the A Song Called Youth... [Read more...]

Monsanto—one of the largest agriculture and biotech companies in the world—creates genetically engineered seeds and food, or GMOs. They’ve also brought the world toxic chemicals like DDT, PCBs and even Agent Orange. [Read more...]

Generation Hex is an era-defining magick anthology that predicted the new popularity of magick in youth culture a good ten years before “chaos magic” came to mainstream prominence. [Read more...]

New York has some strange neighborhoods. There’s the Upper West Side, the Lower East Side and… the Other Side. That’s where the Sidhe live-a race of mythological creatures that have dwelled just under mankind’s nose for millennia, created and kept alive by the dream energy of humans. There’s good... [Read more...]

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) will be remembered for its crucial influence on youth culture throughout the ’80s and ’90s, popularizing occult investigations, tattooing, body piercing, acid house raves, and other ahead-of-the-curve cultic flirtations and investigations. Its leader was Genes... [Read more...]