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Moonchild

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Moonchild

By: Aleister Crowley
Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Icon Players
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Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians, over an unborn child.

In this work, numerous acquaintances of Crowley appear as thinly disguised fictional characters. Crowley portrays MacGregor Mathers as the primary villain, including him as a character named SRMD, using the abbreviation of Mathers' magical name. Arthur Edward Waite appears as a villain named Arthwaite and the unseen head of the Inner Circle of which SRMD was a member. "A.B." is theosophist Annie Besant. Among Crowley's friends and allies, Allen Bennett appears as Mahatera Phang, Leila Waddell as Sister Cybele, the dancer Isadora Duncan appears as Lavinia King, and her companion Mary D'Este (mother of Preston Sturges, and who helped Crowley write his magnum opus Magick: Book 4 under her magical name "Soror Virakam") appears as Lisa la Giuffria. Cyril Grey is Crowley himself, while Simon Iff is either an idealized version of an older and wiser Crowley or his friend Allen Bennett.

Edited by Macc Kay

Production executive Avalon Giuliano

ICON Intern Eden Giuliano

Music by AudioNautix with their kind permission

Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of more than 30 internationally best-selling biographies, including the London Sunday Times best seller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced more than 700 original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well-known movie actor.

©1929 Mandrake Press, London (P)2020 Eden Garret Giuliano
Action & Adventure Fantasy Fiction Horror Magic Sword & Sorcery Scary Magic Users Witchcraft Paranormal

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This is not the complete story as advertised. Dreadful narration. It is a waste of money

Complete con

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atrocious narrator once it finally gets the the real one. I'm sure the effort to read the original would be a far better experience. this literally destroys it

forget it

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This is not the full novel. The reader mispronounced various words and stumbled over things so is clearly not a professional. I an really disappointed as I wanted to hear the whole thing. And I'm annoyed that half the thing was just a guy reading Alestier Crowley quotes and giving us his self congratulatory CV.

not the full novel

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Complete rubbish do not bother. The worst thing I've listened to on audible. really irritating.

Its not what it states

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I wish I’d read the reviews before buying, this is awful. Like others I was expecting the full novel, but only about the first chapter is actually read and it doesn’t even really get to the main plot. The narrator stumbled over words and the pronouncistion is terrible.
Crowley also I’d not the best of novelists and whereas he is very descriptive, his characters lack any depth or believability which doesn’t encourage me to read the rest. There is an introduction which describes the plot of the book that one would expect to follow, then after the first chapter a brief biography of Crowley and a number of quotes from Crowley. Then a load of useless info about one of the narrators.

Only the beginning of the story and badly narrated

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