John Michael Greer Archdruid

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Author Biography

Born in the gritty Navy town of Bremerton, Washington and raised in the south Seattle suburbs, I began writing about as soon as I could hold a pencil.
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Favorite Books

An eclectic mess of fiction and nonfiction: Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend's "Hamlet's Mill," M. John Harrison's "The Pastel City," John Michell's "The View Over Atlantis" (a grand visionary prose poem too often read as fact), Edgar Pangborn's "Davy," Theodore Roszak's "Where the Wasteland Ends," J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," and Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History," among too many others.

What I'm Reading

Lewis Spence's "The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain," David Hiley's "Western Plainchant: A Handbook," and a collection of old instructional papers from one of the old Druid orders that folded into the Ancient Order of Druids in America.

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Monsters

Date of Review:

Published Work:

Monsters

Reviewer:

Randall

Source:

The Cauldron

Review Excerpt:

In spite of John Michael Greer's reputation for decent books on ritual magick, I shuddered when I saw this book. [...] To my relief, Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings is -- for the most part -- a serious and well-done guide to the various types of magickal beings reported in legends and to their investigation.