Delinquent Elementals: A Pagan News Anthology

Delinquent Elementals: A Pagan News Anthology, Edited by Phil Hine & Rodney Orpheus

Delinquent Elementals: A Pagan News Anthology collects some of the finest articles, news reports, interviews, and humour that appeared in this singular publication, providing a fascinating glimpse into the British occult and pagan countercultures of the 1980s and early ’90s.

This collection, newly annotated by the editors, also contains a plethora of articles, commentary, and a wide selection of evolving knowledge and insight into occult practices. It reveals how magical practitioners interacted with the wider culture, political activism, and the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights and recognition. The list of contributors serves a Who’s Who of new wave British occultism. The zine’s 36 issues also charted the arrival, and devastating impact, of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic as it landed on UK shores and began a systematic assault on its occult communities.

Wonderfully unpretentious, absurdly funny and deeply insightful, this is the definitive guide to the radical publication that reflected and reshaped late-twentieth century Britsh occultism.

Phil Hine is a British occult author and researcher. He has gained international recognition through his books Condensed Chaos, Prime Chaos and The Pseudonomicon. His most recent work is Queerying Occultures (Original Falcon Press, 2023).

Rodney Orpheus is a Northern Irish musician, record producer, writer, and technologist. He is known for his work with the musical group The Cassandra Complex and for his books Abrahadabra: Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thelemic Magick and Grimoire of Aleister Crowley.

656 pp. | 165 x 221mm

50+ original archive images and new illustrations by Krent Able