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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote a feature on the artists & writers of the Order of the Golden Dawn for this month's Fortean Times -- the picture researchers has done themselves proud! See that Isabelle de Steiger illustration there. I vote you buy this mag.

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sold out show (26 seats) at the Last Tuesday Society on Monday - thanks to all the absinthe drinkers who sweated through my ramblings

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Golden Dawn book gets a mention in the Tablet this week:

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Published today! And #2 in Alchemy, what a chart topper

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Front window of Atlantis Bookshop (photo Matthew Shaw)

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Current task at work: try to repair this Yeats collection for a student.

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A month ago today! Still standing

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It's half nine in the evening, fool, quit trying to index a whole book

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A highlight: the cavernous basement of the Strand bookshop in NYC!

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I was in New York for the first time last week, my neck hurts

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Processing some interesting stuff today, this issue of Astounding Science Fiction from 1950 - contains one of Sprague de Camp's anthropological essays, and a discerning fan letter from a 20-year-old Lin carter

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Arthur Machen owned a pet bulldog during the 1890s called Juggernaut (or 'Jug' or sometimes 'Juggy').When he entered a room he would take the best seat by the fire 'with many groans and grunts of joy'. But who looked after him when Machen went off on his acting tours?? The true mystery.

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Owl by (I think) Claud Lovat Fraser, 1921

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Victor Hugo, 'Planet-Eye' (c. 1854)

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Entry for the most niche (and least exciting) work by Arthur Machen, probably written in order to get the editor off his back:

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Shabby books by Walter Pater - George Moore called Marius the Epicurean the most beautiful book in English, but Pater himself was 'one of those ugly uncouth figures one meets at the end of terraces'

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A spot of grave hunting the other day required a map:

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Photos from a bookbinding course I took this weekend: nice and easy when it's just folding and sewing, but the swearing starts when the glue's brought out

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

The kinds of books that want to be rotting into mulch outside somewhere:

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Just spent an hour shunting these 'elephant' sized tomes around (technical term). Muscles are now string

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

View of the Eildon Hills, from where we stayed in Melrose. Arthur is somewhere underneath all that.

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Think kindly today of the British, for we do not know this heat

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Illustration from 1923 of Prof. Durig of Vienna, measuring the effects of alcohol on his respiration while climbing up mountains

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Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

W. B. Yeats edited 3 vols. of Blake's works with E. J. Ellis in 1893. I can't think of any better editions (though obv the scholarship's moved on a bit since then, and the prints are b&w)