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I'd be against putting publishers as specialized as Fulgur on an author resources list. If you're not writing books about Spare or Chumbley, knowing Fulgur exists does you no good. If you are writing books about Spare or Chumbley, you'll be well aware that it exists and you don't need an Internet listing for it. Dan Harms Coordinator of Instruction Librarian State University of New York - Cortland Memorial Library B-110 (607) - 753-4042 ________________________________ From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic on behalf of Mogg Morgan Sent: Fri 1/13/2006 6:26 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Favorite Occult Publishers? (a publisher is a publisher is a publisher') Dear Friends Well yes good points there - as to Fulgur - they are famously unresponsive to emails and can appear sometimes to be a little elitist - if you want a laugh take a look at their listing on Amazon for 'Zos Speak' where it says you can't get it via amazon as they don't like the discounting structure. Its maybe the kind of thing where you have to advise authors _not_ to submit mss - or at least to bear in mind that they are very focussed on one author (austin osman spare) concerning which they are, IMO the most authoritative source of info - so only worth submitting if you are writing in this area. The other exception being their involvement in the work of the later Andrew Chumbley. Its not such an unusual thing for a publisher to be 'tied' in this way - there is of course the example of the works of franz bardon, j manley hell, Theosophical publishing etc etc. I wonder really if in your database you might consider the way publishing trends reflect cultural movements - and that there could be a role to document the ebbs and flows in occult publishing. The way occult publishing works is maybe comparable to movements like Chapbook and pampleteering of previous centuries (which on your reconning would probably be excluded), or 'samizdat' - and indeed the whole fanzine thing. I believe that many of the UK political fanzines of the 1960s were pretty much ignored by academics until it was too late to collect them. Andindeed the Bodleian library sold its collection of printed ephemera only to have to buy it back again. Just a thought ; ) 'love and do what you will' mogg