Aleister Crowley: The Drug & Other Stories

 No doubt I should have tempered my expectations with the fact that this is a collection of lesser-known or previously unpublished stories.  My hunger for the arcane, however, led me to seek more in this book than was there.  Surely in 600 pages there would have been at least one that was worth remembering--rereading even.  Sadly, not to my mind.  I suppose I'll have to read Crowley's more famous works eventually, but I will do so with a more cautious eye, one too often fooled recently by books that promise to pierce the veil, but only scatter the cards.  The question seems to be whether Crowley was a genuine mystic, or an imaginative con man.  For now, I am in the latter camp.