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Periodical: The Occult Review

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Occult Review, The.
A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Investigation of Supernormal Phenomena and the Study of Psychological Problems.
Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri
Other titles: The London Forum/Rider's Review
1905--1951 Monthly, then quarterly January 1936
London, England (and American edition, New York, NY).
Editor: Ralph Shirley (with Harry J. Strutton after 1915).
Publisher: William Rider and Son, Ltd.; Rider & Co..
Succeeded by: London Forum-->The Occult Review-->Rider's Review
1/1, January 1905-58/2, August 1933; published as The London Forum from September 1933 to October 1935, and then returned in 1936 to Occult Review (incorporating the London Forum).

In 1938 it reverted to the original title, and in 1949 it became Rider's Review. A US edition of the journal was published from New York one month in arrears of the British edition from 1907 to 1932, beginning with vol. 5, January 1907, which reproduced vol. 5, December 1906, of the British edition. The American edition is distinguishable only by the issue price on the cover, which is given in cents (and occasionally in cents and shillings), and by the fact that beginning in 1910 the American edition had a blue cover rather then the red cover of the British edition. 48-70 pp., 6 x 9. Seven shillings a year, sixpence-one shilling or 30 cents a copy. This was undoubtedly the pre-eminent English-language occult journal of the first quarter of the twentieth century because of the scope and quality of its contributors: A.E. Waite, C.G. Harrison, Franz Hartmann, W. Gorn Old, Andrew Lang, E.W. Berridge, Isabelle de Steiger, Oliver Lodge, J.M. Peebles, Robert Hugh Benson, Hereward Carrington, H. Stanley Redgrove, Mabel Collins, Arthur Avalon, Algernon Blackwood, W.J. Colville, Montague Summers, Sax Rohmer, Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie, Theodore Besterman, and many others. The journal carried articles and reviews, both antiquarian and (occasionally) practical but rarely dogmatic, on every possible occult and spiritualist topic, including ones on John Dee, vampirism, scrying, Sri Agamya Guru Paramahamza (who has an indirect influence on the beginnings of the O.T.O., the Ordo Templi Orientis), "Mr. Isaacs of Simla," J.M. Peebles (his very curious Spirit Mates), Bram Stoker, Aleister Crowley, Victor Neuberg, and many more, all written in the literate and dry style of the era. Of one of R.S. Clymer's works, for example, a reviewer noted that "on careful consideration one feels inclined to say that what is true in it is not new, and what is new is not true." Shirley not only edited the Occult Review but was also the owner of Rider & Co., and was thus a pivotal figure in occult publishing. As "Rollo Ireton," he had earlier published The Horoscope. NYPL; LOC; BNF; ZDB: Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol; Frankfurt/M UB.

Generally (but not always) the UK and foreign editions can be distinguished by the color of their covers: orange for the UK, blue for the foreign. Similarly, the issues are denominated in different currencies: shillings and pence for the UK, and cents for the foreign edition. The differences in content between any one issue across the two editions are substantial. As a general rule, the articles from Issue X of the UK edition appeared in Issue X+1 of the Foreign edition, but you should not assume that rule is always in force.

Indices are available for the UK and foreign editions.

In this archive, the editions are denoted by either UK or FOR in their file names. Additionally, the file names denote whether an issue has a cover (C) or not (NC), and whether an issue includes the advertising/wrappers for the issue (W) or not (NW). Librarians were in the habit of stripping both covers and wrappers before binding issues into volumes, and much is therefore lost for those issues: particularly for the UK issues, which interspersed advertising and material in the back of each issue, often on unnumbered pages.

An index of the periodical's articles between 1905 and 1948 is available.

Issues:Occult Review v1_n1_jan_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v1_n2_feb_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v1_n3_mar_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v1_n4_apr_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v1_n5_may_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v1_n6_jun_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v2_n7_jul_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v2_n8_aug_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v2_n9_sep_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v2_n10_oct_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v2_n11_nov_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v2_n12_dec_1905 UK NC NW
Occult Review v3_n1_jan_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v3_n2_feb_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v3_n3_mar_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v3_n4_apr_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v3_n5_may_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v3_n6_jun_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v4_n7_jul_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v4_n8_aug_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v4_n9_sep_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v4_n10_oct_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v4_n11_nov_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v4_n12_dec_1906 UK NC NW
Occult Review v5_n1_jan_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v5_n2_feb_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v5_n3_mar_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v5_n4_apr_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v5_n5_may_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v5_n6_jun_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v6_n1_jul_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v6_n2_aug_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v6_n3_sep_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v6_n4_oct_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v6_n5_nov_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v6_n6_dec_1907 UK C NW
Occult Review v6_wrappers_1907_uk
Occult Review v7_n1_jan_1908 UK NC NW
Occult Review v7_n2_feb_1908 UK C NW
Occult Review v7_n3_mar_1908 UK C NW
Occult Review v7_n4_apr_1908 UK C NW
Occult Review v7_n5_may_1908 UK C NW
Occult Review v7_n6_jun_1908 UK C NW
Occult Review v8_n1_jul_1908 UK NC NW
Occult Review v8_n2_aug_1908 UK NC NW
Occult Review v8_n3_sep_1908 UK NC NW
Occult Review v8_n4_oct_1908 UK NC NW
Occult Review v8_n5_nov_1908 UK NC NW
Occult Review v8_n6_dec_1908 UK NC NW
Occult Review v8_wrappers_1908_uk
Occult Review v9_n1_jan_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v9_n2_feb_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v9_n3_mar_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v9_n4_apr_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v9_n5_may_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v9_n6_jun_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v10_n1_jul_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v10_n2_aug_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v10_n3_sep_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v10_n4_oct_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v10_n5_nov_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v10_n6_dec_1909 UK C NW
Occult Review v11_n1_jan_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v11_n2_feb_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v11_n3_mar_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v11_n4_apr_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v11_n5_may_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v11_n6_jun_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v11_wrappers_1910_uk
Occult Review v12_n1_jul_1910 FOR C W
Occult Review v12_n1_jul_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v12_n2_aug_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v12_n3_sep_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v12_n4_oct_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v12_n5_nov_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v12_n6_dec_1910 UK C NW
Occult Review v12_wrappers_1910_uk
Occult Review v13_n1_jan_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v13_n2_feb_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v13_n3_mar_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v13_n4_apr_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v13_n5_may_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v13_n6_jun_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v14_n1_jul_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v14_n2_aug_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v14_n3_sep_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v14_n4_oct_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v14_n5_nov_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v14_n6_dec_1911 UK C NW
Occult Review v15_n1_jan_1912 UK C NW
Occult Review v15_n2_feb_1912 UK C NW
Occult Review v15_n3_mar_1912 UK C NW
Occult Review v15_n4_apr_1912 UK C NW
Occult Review v15_n5_may_1912 UK C NW
Occult Review v15_n6_jun_1912 UK C NW
Occult Review v15_wrappers_1912_uk
Occult Review v16_n3_sep_1912 FOR C W
Occult Review v16_n4_oct_1912 FOR C W
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Occult Review v17_n1_jan_1913 UK C NW
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Occult Review v17_n3_mar_1913 UK C NW
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Occult Review v19_n1_jan_1914 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v21_n1_jan_1915 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v22_n1_jul_1915 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v23_n1_jan_1916 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v24_n1_jul_1916 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v25_n1_jan_1917 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v25_n3_mar_1917 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v26_n5_nov_1917 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v26_wrappers_1917_uk
Occult Review v27_n1_jan_1918 UK NC NW
Occult Review v27_n2_feb_1918 UK NC NW
Occult Review v27_n3_mar_1918 UK NC NW
Occult Review v27_n4_apr_1918 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v28_n1_jul_1918 UK C NW
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Occult Review v29_n1_jan_1919 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v32_n1_jul_1920 UK NC NW
Occult Review v32_n2_aug_1920 UK NC NW
Occult Review v32_n3_sep_1920 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v32_n5_nov_1920 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v33_n1_jan_1921 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v33_n4_apr_1921 UK NC NW
Occult Review v33_n5_may_1921 UK NC NW
Occult Review v33_n6_jun_1921 UK NC NW
Occult Review v34_n1_jul_1921 UK NC NW
Occult Review v34_n2_aug_1921 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v35_n1_jan_1922 FOR C NW
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Occult Review v36_n1_jul_1922 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v36_n5_nov_1922 UK NC NW
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Occult Review v37_n1_jan_1923 UK C W
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Occult Review v37_n3_mar_1923 UK C W
Occult Review v37_n4_apr_1923 UK C W
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Occult Review v37_n6_jun_1923 UK C W
Occult Review v38_n1_jul_1923 UK C W
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Occult Review v38_n4_oct_1923 UK C W
Occult Review v38_n5_nov_1923 UK C W
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Occult Review v39_n1_jan_1924 UK C W
Occult Review v39_n2_feb_1924 UK C W
Occult Review v39_n3_mar_1924 UK C W
Occult Review v39_n4_apr_1924 UK C W
Occult Review v39_n5_may_1924 UK C W
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Occult Review v40_n1_jul_1924 FOR C NW
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Occult Review V40 N1 Jul 1924 UK C W
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Occult Review v41_n2_feb_1925 FOR C NW
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Occult Review v41_n1_jan_1925 UK C NW
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Occult Review v42_n3_sep_1925 UK C NW
Occult Review v43_n1_jan_1926 FOR C NW
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Occult Review v45_n1_jan_1927 FOR C NW
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Occult Review V45 N2 Feb 1927 UK C W
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Occult Review v46_n1_jul_1927 FOR C NW
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Occult Review v47_n1_jan_1927 FOR C NW
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Occult Review v48_n1_jul_1928 FOR C NW
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Occult Review v49_n1_jan_1929 FOR C W
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Occult Review v50_n3_sep_1929 FOR C W
Occult Review v50_n4_oct_1929 FOR C W
Occult Review v50_n5_nov_1929 FOR C W
Occult Review v50_n6_dec_1929 FOR C W
Occult Review v51_n1_jan_1930 FOR C W
Occult Review v51_n2_feb_1930 FOR C W
Occult Review v51_n4_apr_1930 FOR C W
Occult Review v51_n5_may_1930 FOR C W
Occult Review v51_n6_jun_1930 FOR C W
Occult Review v51_n3_mar_1930 UK C W
Occult Review v52_n1_jul_1930 FOR C W
Occult Review v52_n2_aug_1930 FOR C W
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Occult Review v52_n4_oct_1930 FOR C W
Occult Review v52_n5_nov_1930 FOR C W
Occult Review v52_n6_dec_1930 FOR C W
Occult Review v53_n1_jan_1931 FOR C W
Occult Review v53_n2_feb_1931 FOR C W
Occult Review v53_n3_mar_1931 FOR C W
Occult Review v53_n4_apr_1931 FOR C W
Occult Review v53_n5_may_1931 FOR C W
Occult Review v54_n6_dec_1931 FOR C W
London Forum v59_n2_feb_1934 UK C W
London Forum v59_n6_jun_1934 UK C W
London Forum v60_n5_nov_1934 UK C W
London Forum v61_n6_jun_1935 UK C W
Occult Review v64_n2_apr_1937 UK C W
Occult Review v65_n2_apr_1938 UK C W
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