English writer and occultist Aleister Crowley was too much of a bisexual libertine even for the drug-taking and far-from-buttoned-up circles in which he moved. Photo: Getty Images
China adventures of world’s ‘wickedest man’: Aleister Crowley’s brushes with death, spirits and ‘appendix on toast’ in Yunnan
- Occultist Aleister Crowley’s journey through Yunnan in 1905/6 bristled with a sense of the supernatural, and some of his tales of the trip were truly macabre
- But when celebrating the success of an expedition he had continuously insisted was horror-haunted and dangerous, he likened it to a safe bus ride in London
English writer and occultist Aleister Crowley was too much of a bisexual libertine even for the drug-taking and far-from-buttoned-up circles in which he moved. Photo: Getty Images
