Golden Hoard Press

01/04/2024

My interview by Glitch Bottle has just been published. https://youtu.be/YTf2xemkC3s

16/03/2024

The completely revamped and corrected edition of Dee’s Diaries from 1583 to 1608 now re-edited by Dr Stephen Skinner, from the original manuscripts in the British Library, correcting over a thousand errors, with an introduction, appendices, footnotes, supplementary texts, additional illustrations, and a Dee timeline.
Corrections are included from the original notes of Meric Casaubon, Elias Ashmole and William Shippen. Sections which were originally missing have been added. Angels, spirits, people, places, dates and times have been fully footnoted and listed, and Casaubon’s errors corrected. The full Latin translation has been incorporated in the text which is something that no other edition has.
844 pages. 26 illustrations plus 6 in full colour. Available from Amazon ISBN 9781912212132.
* Special offer: A few copies are left of the hand bound limited half leather edition (ISBN : 978-1912212-15-6) direct from Golden Hoard (but not from Amazon) * Original Price : £126.00 reduced to £96.00.* Simply send £96.00 plus £14.00 courier delivery via Paypal to [email protected] with the message “leather Dee please” and your phone number (for the courier).

07/03/2024

Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic the Key to understanding and using the PGM by Dr. Stephen Skinner *
Avalable on Amazon and from the distributor Llewellyn at: ISBN : 978-0-9568285-6-9
Price : $65.00/ £40.00 *
Pages : 388, HB with 42 Illustrations and 61+ Tables * 2014
* An analysis of the more than 60 magical methods to be found in the Egyptian Papyri Graecae Magicae
Attempting to read Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri in Hans Dieter Betz’s The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation is a daunting task, as they seem to be in no particular order (except for papyrus number) with a mixture of many different techniques, with minor snippets mixed in with serious and long invocations. However if you were to read them in the original Greek, you would soon perceive that the scribes have in most cases used a headword to indicate what kind of rite was involved. What Stephen Skinner has done here is to separate and tabulate each of the 40+ techniques, using the indications employed by the original scribes and magicians. Reading the PGM in this way immediately gives much greater clarity.
But a second obstacle to understanding how these techniques work is that the various passages have been translated by a wide range of academics using no consistent plan of translation. In many cases the translator has just taken the easy way out and just used ‘spell’ or ‘charm’ to translate dozens of different words which are technical terms which explain how the different magical methods work. Stephen Skinner has rectified this by extracting each of these specialist Greek terms for different magical procedures and, dividing up the papyri into their constituent methods.
The result is more than a guide to the papyri, it is a complete survey and explanation of the functioning of the different types of Graeco-Egyptian magic, often noting where such techniques appear again in the later grimoires, something never attempted before.
If you want to undestand Graeco-Egyptian magic, this is where you should start.

05/03/2024

Techniques of Solomonic Magic
Dr. Stephen Skinner
Available from Amazon at ISBN : 978-9810943-10-3
Pages : 378. Illustrations : 20 Colour & 48 B/W. 30 Tables.
Published : 2015.
An analysis of the practice of Solomonic magic from the 7th to the 19th century as found in classic grimoires like Hygromanteia and Key of Solomon.
This volume is about the actual methods of Solomonic magic (a major part of the grimoire tradition) used in Alexandria and how they havebeen passed via Byzantium (the Hygromanteia), to the Latin Clavicula Salomonis and its English incarnation as the Key of Solomon. Jewish techniques like the use of pentacles, oil and water skrying were added along the way. Amazingly, this transmission has involved very few changes and the ‘technology of magic’ has remained firmly intact. This book covers specific practical magical techniques such as the invocation of the gods, the binding of demons, the use of the four demon Kings, and the construction of the circle and lamen. The requirements ofpurity, sexual abstinence, and fasting have changed little in the last 2000 years, and the real reasons for them are explained. The use of amulets,talismans and phylacteries or lamens is outlined along with their methods of construction. Solomonic evocation is explained with reasons given for each step including the use of thwarting angels, and the binding, imprisoning and licensing of spirits. Practical considerations such as the facing directions and timing of evocations, choice of incense, cutting of the wand, utilisation of rings and statues, use of the Table of Evocation, and the acquisition of a familiarspirit are explained. Techniques of Solomonic Magic is based on the magicians’ own handbooks rather than the opinions of theologians, historians, anthropologists, sociologists or legislators. The emphasis is on what magicians did and why. Tools used by magicians in 7th centuryAlexandria, 15th century Constantinople and 19th century London are very much the same. More than 70 illustrations of magical equipment like the wand, the sword, wax images and magical gems, drawn from a wide range of manuscripts are reproduced and explained. This is the most detailed analysis of practical Solomonic magic, from the inside, ever written.

01/03/2024

Key to the Mysteries of Magic
A great collection of planetary Talismans and simple magical formulas dating from 1520.

12/02/2024

For those of you who might be interested in the contents of
The Ancient’s Book of Magic, by Lewis de Claremont,
I have listed its contents below. Copies are available on Amazon at a very reasonable £13 or $16.

Secret Procedure in order to make an Invocation
The Magical Art of Necromancy
On Invocations
Questions on Invocations
Invocations of Animals
Human Telegraphy
Of the Consecration of all Magical Instruments and Materials which are used in this Art
Consecration of Water
Consecration of Fire
Consecration of Oil
Benediction of Lights, Lamps, Wax, etc.
The Consecration of Places, Ground, Circle, etc.
Of the Invocation of Evil Spirits, and their Binding, and Constraining of them to Appear
Of the Method of Raising Evil or Familiar Spirits by a Circle
The Souls and Astral Bodies of the Dead
The Composition of the Circle
Benediction of Perfumes
The Exorcism of Fire into which the Perfumes are put
Of the Pentacle of the Hindu
The Manner of Working
Of the Appearance of the Spirits
Considerations and Conjurations for every day in the Week
Considerations and Conjuration of Sunday
Considerations and Conjuration of Monday
Considerations and Conjuration of Tuesday
Considerations and Conjuration of Wednesday
Considerations and Conjuration of Thursday
Considerations and Conjuration of Friday
Considerations and Conjuration of Saturday
List of Angels, Spirits, Demons, Goblins

11/02/2024

I have recently discovered a 20th century grimoire which was usually associated with hoodoo. it was however a fairly complete Solomonic grimoire with Spirit Register, invocations, planetary hours, etc. It is well worth reading.
Available from:
https://www.amazon.com/Ancients-Book-Magic-neglected-grimoire/dp/1912212447/ref=sr_1_7?crid=UOF7LHQ781C1&keywords=ancients+book+of+magic&qid=1707674267&sprefix=ancients+book+of+magic%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-7
and
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912212447?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

24/05/2021

Two of the Golden Hoard leather-bound titles are now available:
Keys to the Gateway Vol 2 - Leather
Ars Notoria Vol 11 (not the latest one) - Leather
Order via http://sskinner.com/books2.htm
OR goldenhoard.net

This is the sequel to Ars Notoria: the Grimoire of Rapid Learning and it includes all of the practical material from the most complete manuscript available - MS Bibliothèque Nationale Lat. 9336

31/01/2021

Dear readers, because of covid restrictions, Golden Hoard Press cannot supply any books direct at the moment, probably not until the Summer Solstice.
Ordinary cloth editions can be purchased from:
1. Llewellyn Worldwide, our US distributor.
https://www.llewellyn.com/advanced_search_results.php?search_form_submit=Search&search_author=4199
2. Amazon US.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stephen+skinner&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
3. Amazon UK.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=stephen+skinner&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
4. Amazon Australia.
https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=stephen+skinner+books&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

Some Limited Leather-bound Collectors' editions, can be bought from Weiser Antiquarian and miskatonicbooks.com.