Cipher Mysteries

Here's yet another cipher-tinged literary genre I wasn't previously aware of - the ex-Mormon novel. As a just-released exemplar,  "Latter-Day Cipher" by ex-Mormon Latayne Scott (author of "The Mormon Mirage", so her overall position should be no great surprise) appears to do a pretty good job of tackling contentious Mormon issues - along the lines of 'if certainty ...

I try to pick up on everything VMs-related out there, and I liked comics as a kid (Marvel not DC, if you're askin'): so it came as a nice surprise to find the Voynich Manuscript popping up on the edges of the comics world. According to this page on his own website, satirical graphics novel author Steve Aylett placed ...

I've just started reading Colin Wilson's "The Philosopher's Stone", so I thought it might be a good idea to blog about an article from the Metromagick blog where he also plays a role. The piece is called "Dr. John Dee, the Necronomicon & the Cleansing of the World", and was written by Colin Low in 1996-2000. It's basically an ...