This long out-of-print classic firstpublished thirteen years ago in two volumes in a limited edition of300 now reappears in a single 900 page hardcover. It contains all 16issues of Invocation and issues 1-36 of The New Invocation. you dont already know Invocation is not your typical magicmagazine. On the contrary it is a magazine consciously Devoted toWeird and Bizarre Magick....Invocation then stands as areminder to magicians that there is an older magic a deeper andperhaps even darker tradition that has quietly spread underground forcenturies - banished temporarily by Robert-Houdin when he exchanged thewizards robes for the contemporary dress of the day. This older magicstretches back in time and history far beyond the point where writtenrecords begin. ...And so Invocation gives us magic for the few and not for the many. Perhaps this is as it should be -From the Introduction by Eugene Burger