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Sex and the Supernatural by Benjamin Walker (Castle Books)

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jan 14th, 2024. Artwork published in .
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Tight-and-touching ITC Bernase Roman for Sex and the Supernatural, a book by Benjamin Walker (1913–2013), an Indian-born British author on religion and philosophy, and an authority on esoterica. Originally published in England by MacDonald in 1970, with a different cover design, this is the Castle Books edition from 1973.

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1 Comment on “Sex and the Supernatural by Benjamin Walker (Castle Books)”

  1. Rebecca Baumann (@arkhamlibrarian) comments:

    During the summer of Frankenstein (1816) at the Villa Diodati, Byron read the poem Christabel aloud and Percy Shelley ran shrieking from the room because it gave him a vision of a woman with eyes for nipples

    See also Stanisław Zagórski’s jacket design for A Perfect Crime, Or Two, featuring another typeface by Tom Carnase:

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