(Part 2) Top products from r/LPOTL

In addition to the great recommendations from everyone else this is a terrific biography that's pretty objective and and this is an excellent book by Crowley himself in which he lays out the whole concept of his magical philosophy. It's good to start with either an abridged copy of Book 4 if you prefer print books or you can easily find a free digital copy of the full volume online since all his works are in the public domain.

For any Alan Moore fans waiting for this episode you need to check out: From Hell
An excellent exegesis on The Ripper, with the appropriate amount of the occult and non linear time you hope for from our favorite wizard.

[This one is real good too.](http://www.Rasputin.com/ The Untold Story https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118172760/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0w9vCbZA6YNJZ)

Here's the website with all of the books they read for research.

I would say read Raven which was written about 4 years after Jonestown if you want something that was more "in the moment"

I'll bet there get into the weird Oswald/Chaos Magic connection.

Oswald was pretty good friends with Kerry Wendell Thornley who was the co founder of the Discordian movement. Thornley actually wrote a book about him and Oswald in the military that was published before the assassination (its called the Idle Warriors if you want to check it out). They even had Thornley testify at the warren commission during which time he broke into his lawyers office and used his copy machine to make the first edition of The Principal Discrodia.

He also liked to screw with conspiracy theorists

Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller is their main source as far as I know.

They've been mentioning the book sporadically for a while now, I'm relatively new and binged listened so I can't tell you how long ago. As of right now I believe the book is set to drop in February. Here's the Amazon listing for it.

I find this case really fascinating since it's from my hometown, but Anthony Sowell was a really twisted individual much along the line of a Gacy where he had the previous sexual assault conviction, hid the bodies in his house that he killed during a sexual tryst, he just wasn't a socially active guy. This is probably the best book written on the case:

https://www.amazon.com/House-Horrors-Shocking-Cleveland-Strangler/dp/1606351869/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494518018&sr=8-1&keywords=anthony+sowell

Some true crime books about UK serial killers: -

Beyond Belief - by Emlyn Williams, about the Moors Murderers

Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son - by Gordon Burn, about the Yorkshire Ripper

Happy Like Murderers- also by Gordon Burn, about Fred and Rosemary West

Killing for Company- by Brian Masters, about Dennis Nilsen

She Must Have Known- also by Brian Masters, about the West case

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Enjoy!

There's another good reason to do this one. One of the main investigators also worked on the monster of florence case. Its a crazy story

The police were super incompetent, part of hannibal lecters story is based on theories about the killer, it must be a physician, its the top journalist covering the case, its a secret satanic cult, so much stuff.

Theres a great book by two jouranalists that investigated the case. The American was charged and banned from the country for obstruction of justice and the Italian journalist was imprisoned on suspicion that he was the killer. Its bonkers.

https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Florence-Douglas-Preston/dp/1455573825

e: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliano_Mignini This is the batshit Italian prosecutor involved in both cases. He's ripe for LPOTL