Hadean Press

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.

Available as pamphlet and digital edition:
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13/07/2025

Historiola: The Power of Narrative Charms

In the beginning was the word, and for as long as there has been language, there has been power within the use of words. Incantations and spoken charms apply nuance, narrative, rhyme, and cadence to achieve magical effects, commonly divided into healing, hexing, and procuring. Modern academic scholarship, focusing on their historical relevance, refers to magical narrative charms as historiolae, which are explored here within numerous cultures of antiquity including Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, and Indian through to Norse and Christian examples.

The author’s native Scandinavian tradition of troll formulae uses short narratives with a powerful protagonist (such as Jesus, saints, Mary, three maidens, mythical figures) performing the required action to heal, or hex. The narrative recounts a series of events, which the speaker through sympathetic magic manifests into action through the power of the protagonist and their actions. The story-telling aspect of the charms also provides a visual component to the charm, activating the power of imagination in both speaker and (if appropriate) recipient.

Through his exploration of the components of historiolae and associated ritual components, Carl Nordblom lucidly and concisely demonstrates the practice of narrative charms, equipping the reader with everything needed to incorporate or enhance their use in personal practice. And the word was with magic, and the word was magic.

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06/07/2025

The Red Dreaded Spindle: An Astrolater’s Guide to the Stinger Stars of Scorpius
Sasha Ravitch
Cover and interior art by J. M. Hamade

In The Red Dreaded Spindle, author Sasha Ravitch forges a pact negotiated at the crossroads of Astrolatry and Stellar Witchcraft, defined by a living relationship between the Witch and her initiation into the cultus of the Stinger Stars of Scorpius. This devotional guide weaves sanguinated silk threads into a web of research and observable phenomena, case studies and pattern-tracing, scried-spirits and gnosis from visionary ecstasies. The scarlet ligatures of folklore and spirit-work featured within these pages trace a celestial blueprint through which one crafts and consecrates a devotional stellar fe**sh via the light-refracting arte of starry witchcrafting.

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26/06/2025

Big news today: pre-orders are now open for the second volume in David Rankine's Claves trilogy! 𝕮𝖑𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖘 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖚𝖚𝖒: 𝕰𝖝𝖕𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖟𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝕲𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖔𝖎𝖗𝖊 𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖏𝖚𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 continues the work begun in 'Claves Intelligentiarum' of evolving grimoire conjuration in the twenty-first century whilst remaining true to the essence of the tradition.
'Claves Spirituum' offers a wealth of material inspired by both practice and recent developments in grimoire scholarship, 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.

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26/06/2025

Big news today: pre-orders are now open for the second volume in David Rankine's Claves trilogy! 𝕮𝖑𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖘 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖚𝖚𝖒: 𝕰𝖝𝖕𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖟𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝕲𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖔𝖎𝖗𝖊 𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖏𝖚𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 continues the work begun in 'Claves Intelligentiarum' of evolving grimoire conjuration in the twenty-first century whilst remaining true to the essence of the tradition.

'Claves Spirituum' offers a wealth of material inspired by both practice and recent developments in grimoire scholarship, 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. Link below as usual. 😍

17/06/2025

In Ars Rosaria: The Rosary Art of Conjuration, rosary beads are used in combination with adaptations of the Holy Rosary, a Marian exorcism, and various goetic conjurations to conjure and form pacts with the demons of Goetia.

Rosary beads are more commonly considered a devotional tool than a magical one, yet from a magician’s perspective they are unambiguously both, and can be used as a ward against evil as well as a means of ensuring that wishes will be granted.

Available as pamphlet and digital edition (epub and amazon kindle):
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11/06/2025

Professional violinist, muse to the infamous Aleister Crowley.

Though Leila Waddell has become an iconic figure in twentieth century occultism, precise details of her life are mostly obscure. From her early years in Australia to her career as an international touring musician, her role as paramour and inspiration to the wickedest man in the world, and finally her return to home shores and tragic early death, Laylah: The Life of Leila Waddell is the first and only biography of her to be published.

Thoroughly researched and lovingly written, Laylah shines a light on Leila’s extraordinary career as Australia’s ‘finest violiniste’ and puts to lie Crowley’s assertion that she was no more than a ‘fifth rate fiddler’. While Crowley did not name Leila as one of his Scarlet Women, her impact on his life cannot be denied; it is this publisher’s opinion that she should in fact hold that revered title, and we are privileged to offer this definitive biography of a most beloved woman to our readers.

Pre-order for the hardcover only. Please allow 2-3 months for shipping. Our fine hardcover edition will be printed on Munken creme paper, covered in red Novalite Emotions with gold stamping to front and spine and printed marbled endpapers. Image shown is the paperback edition, available soon.

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07/06/2025

Using as inspiration José Leitão’s work on the Iberian tradition of Saint Cyprian, artist Natalia Lee Forty has created a unique cartomancy deck meant to enter into conversation with the longstanding Lenormand and Sibilla tradition.

These are Bridge sized cards (57mm x 89mm), printed in colour on Eco Herbage stock with a matte finish, which includes a saddle-sewn booklet of 22 pages all presented in a tin case.

This 40-card deck uses as its foundation the Iberian baraja pack of cards, which contain 4 suits (batons, coins, swords, and cups) ranging from the Ace to 7, with three Court cards. For the illustrations, Natalia mainly surveyed José Leitão’s work on Cyprianic cartomancy, while also looking at other traditional fortunetelling and cartomancy decks.

This deck is simple in its aim, meant to be read as is, taking the card insert and the illustration to be read cohesively within a spread as ideograms, or more contemporaneously worded, pictograms.

Natalia has created the suits to sit within a Cyprianic landscape, both rural and somewhat urban. The suits are as follows: the batons reveal the outside world, the land, country. The cups reveal the inner world, contained within the home, the hearth. Conversely, the suit of coins and the suit of swords blurs these two contrasts, playing with the world contained in the home and that which is encountered outside the home.

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02/06/2025

Night School Volume II: Cyprian’s Offices of Spirits

This ‘Guide to Grimoiring’ ends the Night School series by renowned occult author Jake Stratton-Kent. The first volume, The Sworn and Secret Grimoire, used the Grimoire of Turiel as a starting point for engaging with the ritual process when working with grimoiric spirits and can be thought of as an ‘occult primer’.
In this second volume, Jake moves us into the realm of Cyprianic spirit-work, the mysteries of the Lunar Mansions, and an investigation of the Kings and Queens of the Elementals. Moving between history and practice, Cyprian’s Offices of Spirits, as its predecessor did with Turiel, takes its inspiration from Nathaniel Moulth’s Petit Manuel du Devin et du Sorcier, through which it highlights the folkloric elements of grimoiric practice and the benefits of ritual timing.

Available in hardback, paperback and digital editions.
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29/05/2025

The Raven comes home to roost.

Today we took delivery of the hardcover edition of 'The Black Raven: A Study in the Folk Necromancy of Early Modern Germany' translated by Brian Johnson - Editing, Research, Translation & Writing and with extensive commentary by Brian and Dr Alexander Cummins. We'll begin shipping to customers and booksellers next week. There are still some copies remaining but they may not last long. 🖤