This volume is a compendium of two rare works by Crowley: his poetry collection White Stains, as well as a pornographic novella entitled The Nameless Novel. White Stains is comparable to "The Flowers of Evil", with two major differences. The verse is much less fluid and rather dry in comparison. What the work lacks in form, it supplements with content. Crowley goes far beyond Baudelaire's allusions to homosexuality and satanism, also touching on coprophilia, necrophilia, urophagia, and bestiality. The Nameless Novel focuses even more heavily on bizarre sexual fetishism, to a point where it is outrageously hyperbolic and almost humorous. Scenes are no doubt taken to extremes for no other purpose than to shock the reader. It is the sexual imagery of de Sade multiplied ten fold, with heavy emphasis on satire and mockery (clergyman and queens are shown as nothing more than the most fanatical perverts). The book will hold interest for Crowley aficionados or seekers of ribald Victorian smut, but it is not something you will want to read multiple times or on a full stomach. ( )

cobblers,rubbish ,ok if one is into it,i bought it out of curiousity,and am not into it,and believe in a Loving Father,so this book is utter bullshit and shouldnt even be in print lest it has any negative effect on anybody - gobbledegook