Remember that one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Buffy’s watcher Giles has Willow spend the whole summer scanning his vast library of ancient occult books into the computer for the Scooby ...

Are you more interested in learning about the ancient magical traditions of Hermeticism than you are the latest New York Times bestseller? Than you are in luck, because thanks to the Dutch Ritman ...

One of the world’s biggest collections of occult texts is going online, meaning anyone will be able to access and read hundreds of obscure and fascinating books for free. The Dutch Ritman Library is ...

Books on witchcraft and the occult collected by SS chief Heinrich Himmler were found in a storage depot near Prague used by the Czech National Library. The depot has not been accessed since the 1950s, ...

We’ve written about a lot of library digitization projects, but one of the more interesting collections to bring their books to the public is Amsterdam’s Ritman Library. Its collection of esoteric, ...

It has folders marked ‘Grasping the victim’s head’ and now – after a £15m revamp and some help from Albert Einstein and the patron saint of the internet – the extraordinary Warburg Institute has a new ...

Book of Hours is an elegant, melancholy, combat-free RPG set in an occult library. Acquire occult books, by purchase or more underhand means, and study them to solve the setting's mysteries. Restore ...