Edited by Chiara Amendola

OCCULT SIXTIES & SEVENTIES
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out!

The first issue of Occulture: A Warning to the Curious, a new zine series from the U.K. reveling in the recurring cycles of occult revival and all the possibility they bring to the world.

Issue 1 of Occulture takes readers back in time to the occult revival of the 1960s and 1970s, digging into the rich and often seedy underground of cultists, psychonauts, musicians, and witches. Featuring an opening editorial and the following articles…

• The Occult Revolution: On Pop Religions, Countercultural Upheavals, and the Rise of the Marginalised, by Chiara Amendola, with opening illustration by Moritz Krebs

• Crowley Rock’n’Roll: The Influence of the Beast on the Sixties Counterculture, by Antony Shaw, with opening illustration by Ryan William Kay

• Turn On, Tune In, Hex Out: The Seventies Witchcraft Records, by Chiara Amendola, with opening illustration by Bunty May Marshall

• Snuff Cinema: A Social Commentary, by Antony Shaw and Chiara Amendola

• Cult Photorama: Aesthetics of the Occult Counterculture, in collaboration with Mark Breed

• Bonus Track: Satanic Businesswoman Catherine La Voisin and the Parisian Black Masses, by Bernardo Marconi, illustrated by Astrid Björklund

 …supplemented by a page of further reading recommendations and a plethora of photographs from the era. Additional artwork by Lee Lund, Joe Youngman, James Gandy, and Church of the Hollow Spider.

Published by Occulture (June 2023). A new pamphlet in perfect condition.

60-page perfect-bound paperback with full-color illustrations throughout.