White Stains cover

White Stains

by Aleister Crowley

White Stains, Aleister Crowley's notorious book of risqué verse, was clandestinely published in Amsterdam in 1898, and of the hundred copies that were imported into England, only a handful were spared destruction by the British Government. Inspired by Psychopathia Sexualis, Richard Krafft-Ebing's controversial study of sexual perversity, White Stains purports to be "the literary remains of George Archibald Bishop, a neuropath of the Second Empire."

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