Dark desires, forbidden knowledge, and the dangerous cost of obsession sit at the heart of The Magician, newly revised by G.G. MacLeod.

Dark desires, forbidden knowledge, and the dangerous cost of obsession sit at the heart of The Magician, newly revised by G.G. MacLeod. This haunting reimagining of W. Somerset Maugham’s classic novel pulls readers into a shadowed world where love becomes captivity, power corrupts absolutely, and magic is never without consequence.

✔️ Edwardian Paris setting steeped in decadence, science, and occult obsession

✔️ A brilliant surgeon, an innocent fiancée, and a charismatic occult predator

✔️ A sinister magician inspired by Aleister Crowley and forbidden alchemical lore

✔️ Descent into corruption, addiction, and psychological domination

✔️ Dark occult rituals, blasphemous experiments, and body-horror imagery

✔️ A ruthless female protagonist who rejects weakness and embraces power

✔️ Blood magic, forbidden texts, and transgressive ritual practices

✔️ A bold, modern revision of Maugham’s The Magician

✔️ Hardcore, extreme, and intentionally confrontational horror

Check out the blurb:

In Edwardian Paris, brilliant surgeon Arthur Burdon
is engaged to beautiful Margaret Dauncey, accompanied by her loyal friend, artist Susie Boyd. They encounter enigmatic Oliver Haddo—a wealthy, obese occultist claiming alchemical mastery. Haddo, inspired by Aleister Crowley, seduces and marries Margaret, drawing her into depravity.

While Arthur remains blind, Susie spies Haddo’s true nature: tentacled astral projections, ritual abuse, and experiments creating daemonic homunculi fed on virgin blood. Margaret descends into addiction and submission. Susie, contemptuous of weakness, murders to steal Haddo’s forbidden texts, performs blood rituals, and binds young Oswald Pendleton as lover and disciple through explicit sex magick.

This modern revision of this classic pot-boiler is a more hardcore, horrifying, and twisted take on this tale.

Dare to descend into obsession, corruption, and forbidden magic. Buy The Magician now on ebook or in paperback, HERE.

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