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26/09/2025

Today is the feast day of Saint Cyprian of Antioch, the infamous sorcerer-saint. He and his beloved Justina were allegedly martyred on this day at Nicomedia, in 304 C.E. Whether or not their story is historically accurate no longer matters. Their books and prayers have infiltrated our occult world, and those of us who work with them know their powers are real. Hadean’s offering on this feast day is three new Cyprian texts from three different regions – three new ways to engage with the Saint and his magic.

For an overview, please follow the link in the comments, or visit our website to learn more. Many thanks to Simone Kotva, José Leitão, and Brian Johnson for making these texts available, and for giving us the opportunity to publish them.

13/09/2025

In Venus as Mother: to Soothe a Grieving Heart, Ivy Senna draws on Venus as the Great Mother, a ‘vital principle of the visible universe’, to offer a rite to soothe our grieving hearts, calling upon Socodiah through the usage of the First Pentacle of Venus as a vessel of communication, along with additional rites to form a pact with a weeping tree and a river of your choice.

Available as pamphlet, epub and amazon kindle.
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07/09/2025

Pre-order for the hardcover edition only. Please allow two to three months for shipping. EPUB now available in our website.

Learning from Legendary Practitioners: A Necromantic Journey into History, Myth, and the Practice of Magic is a masterclass in the practice of spirit summoning and necromancy.

In this book Kadmus offers a series of investigations into ancient and legendary experts in the occult arts, including the ancient Greek figures of Circe, Teiresias, Medea, and Orpheus, as well as the supposed witches and faery queens who were the inspiration for the play Macbeth. These investigations engage with the myth and literature around each figure, as well as their historical and archeological contexts.

Each chapter seeks to provide both our best understanding of the practitioners in questions as well as explanations for how the author went on to contact these figures and what he learned from the experience – thus blending historical research with active occult investigation largely of necromantic nature. The result is a book that provides a full education in the practice of spirit summoning and necromancy as well as offering a complete profile of some of the art’s most famous practitioners.

The second part of the book provides careful considerations of the nature of necromancy, its connection to the ancient cults of the dead which we understand as ancestor and hero worship, the enigmatic tomb cult, and finally a detailed guide for how to acquire an assistant spirit of the dead to aid in your necromantic work.

Learning from Legendary Practitioners is an invaluable book for those whose practice involves spirit work, and for those who are interested in spirit-summoning in general.

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02/09/2025

We have resumed shipping to the US.

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28/08/2025

Three of our forthcoming titles: Learning from Legendary Practitioners: A Necromantic Journey into History, Myth, and the Practice of Magic by Kadmus will open for pre-orders in early September; Cyprianus: St. Cyprian and the Black Book in Scandinavian Folklore by Simone Kotva will open for pre-orders in late September; Especially Dangerous: The Snowshill Collection by Mark Hewitt will open for pre-orders in October.

Don't forget we're still running our Summer Sale! We’re offering 10% off all items in our Books & Journals, Guides to the Underworld, Papaveria Press, and Friends and Other Imprints categories. This discount will be applied automatically at checkout so there is nothing for you to do except pick up those titles you’ve been thinking about.

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27/08/2025

US customers should be aware that some shipping services have been temporarily suspended. We have collected all of the known information on our shipping policy page, which we'll update as and when new information is available. Please read our policy to familiarise yourself with what is happening. Our shipping of orders to the US should only be delayed by a few days (pre-orders will ship as stated on the product page). https://hadean.press/policies/shipping-policy

24/08/2025

"The Wandering School of Secrets: A Prospectus" is a manual and syllabus of sorcery aimed at the itinerant magician. This is magical growth stripped down to the essentials – a journey through the heteropraxy of sorcery as a subversive and secretive lifestyle that benefits the practitioner and those they choose to help.

Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient Greek myth and magic, Welsh folklore, the grimoire tradition, Shinto, and many others, the core principles and essential practices of magic are covered in a lucid and effective manner. Dealing with spirits, the ancestors, nature spirits, using planetary magic, herb lore, magical language and music, astrology and effective timing are all explored as core components of developing your personal practice of sorcery. This book is an inspirational work which sets the readers’ feet on the road less travelled and gives pointers to all the necessary tools.

The hardcover edition is available to pre-order, the epub edition is available now, and the paperback edition will be released in October.

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21/08/2025

Starting tomorrow! We’re offering 10% off all items in our Books & Journals, Guides to the Underworld, Papaveria Press, and Friends and Other Imprints categories (essentially all of the books). This discount will be applied automatically at checkout so there is nothing for you to do except pick up those titles you’ve been thinking about.

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09/08/2025

In Seven Crossroads of Night Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold sets forth the foundation for Quimbanda in theory and practice, presenting a blueprint for the themes that generate the variety of ways Quimbanda can be approached.

Quimbanda is a Brazilian cult of sorcery that has been preserved in different modalities – either as a secret cult, a necromantic cult, or as an open, religious tradition. Formed of indigenous, African, and European streams of wisdom and sorcery, this unique cult of Exu and Pomba Gira is safeguarded by these amazing entities in diverse ways across Brazil. Remaining strong in their own power, these unique entities represent the mystery of the crossroad, the voice of the graveyard, and the force of life that generates endurance, direction, and honour through the lessons given from life itself and the ancestors.

Though Quimbanda has flourished in the world during the last decade, with the flow and spread of the cult of Exu and Pomba Gira comes questions, misinformation, and confusion along with the fertile ground for its growth. In such a landscape it is good to have waymarks to follow and a map which reveals the lay of the land in the world of these powerful spirits. Frisvold, a resident of Brazil since 2003 who has dedicated the last three decades in study and initiation of cults of sorcery, wisdom, and cunning craft guides us though the intricacies of Quimbanda, offering a simple and effective guide to work with Exu and Pomba Gira.

Cover art by Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos.

Available in paperback and digital edition.

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02/08/2025

Pre-order for the hardcover edition only. Cover image shown here is the paperback edition.

One of the most significant and exciting inclusions into the practice of grimoire conjuration is the restoration of the winds to transport spirits to the conjuror, reducing the time required reciting conjurations. Another major development is the inclusion of the Shekinah as a source of wisdom and prophetic power.

Claves Spirituum focuses on conjuration of the Olympic Spirits and Demon Bishops, but also discusses spirits and their hierarchies, as well as exploring the roles and types of spirit pacts and offerings. Other themes include how to create your own pentacles, working with genius loci, conjuring with sensory impairment or disability, role-specific preparation (conjuror, skryer, scribe, and guard), types of magic circle, and ways to increase magical momentum for successful conjuration.

The appendixes include a wealth of spirit sigils, conjurations, prayers, psalm incipits and divine names. Additional consecrations are also included with discussion of the importance of consecration and the sequence to perform all the consecrations in.

Claves Spirituum offers a wealth of material inspired by both practice and recent developments in grimoire scholarship such as the publication of Summa Sacra Magice and promotes the development of an authentic personal practice. It is an absolute must-have for anyone seeking to improve or develop their own practice, or who simply wants a greater insight into how the grimoires can be used by practitioners in the present day.

Our hardcover edition will be made to match Claves Intelligentiarum, being a sewn bound hardback with text printed on 100gsm offset paper, covered in Wibalin Buckram light blue cloth, with black foiling on front and spine and black endsheets and endbands. Printing 500 copies.

31/07/2025

Join us tomorrow in London at Watkins Books for Laylah: The Life of Leila Waddell with author Darren Francis. Who was Leila Waddell, really? The former muse, lover and companion of Aleister Crowley is given the spotlight she deserves for the first time in the sole biography of a missing chapter of important magickal history.
Time & Location
01 Aug 2025, 17:00 – 18:00
London, 19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ, UK

Who was Leila Waddell, really? The former muse, lover and companion of Aleister Crowley is given the spotlight she deserves for the first time in the sole biography of a missing chapter of important magickal history.

27/07/2025

In The Venerable Doña Sebastiana de Caso: the original Santa Muerte, Robert Nixon offers compelling evidence drawn from the Vida del la Beata Marianna of Jacinto Morán de Butrón to support Doña Sebastiana’s identity as the original figure of Santa Muerte, or Saint Death.

The popular veneration of the figure of Santa Muerte in Mexico and elsewhere in the world is one of the most curious spiritual and cultural phenomena of our age. In recent times, a vast corpus of secondary literature treating the subject has emerged, yet the original figure on which Santa Muerte is based has remained garbed in mysterious shadows.

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