This is a wonderful tale of English eccentrics, told with deadpan British humor. At last Arthur encounters the man himself, in a dingy café… Here he meets the femme fatale Betty May, who blames Crowley for the death of her husband, and tells fantastic tales of satanism in Sicily.
In London, Arthur graduates towards the epicenter of Bohemian literary life in the pubs of Fitzrovia. When Arthur goes up to Oxford, Vicky Bird connects him with circles who dabble in the supernatural. He is haunted by some romantic tragedy in his past, in which Crowley may be implicated. The title needs to be taken quite literally as much of the narrative revolves around the shadowy figure of occultist Aleister Crowley, at the height of his dubious powers during this era.Īs boys growing up in a small country town, Arthur and his brother befriend an eccentric poet, whom they dub Vicky Bird-in fact a fairly well-known literary figure called Victor Neuberg. A charming, quirky memoir from British author Arthur Calder-Marshall, recalling his youth in 1920s England.
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