The Diary of a Drug Fiend

About this book

Peter Pendragon and Lou Laleham enter a world of cocaine, heroin and intoxicating freedom. Their romance promises escape from every ordinary limit until dependence begins to shape their days and their choices.

Aleister Crowley draws partly on his own experience in a novel that moves through parties, addiction and the struggle to recover command of the will. Occult teaching becomes entangled with the practical problem of survival. Beneath the provocative setting is a sustained interest in what happens when pleasure turns into a kind of captivity.