Kenneth & Steffi Grant: ZOS SPEAKS
1st 1998 296pp Fulgur 4to hardback. Illustrated including colour. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed at edges else VG+ in VG+ dustwrapper.
NB. Loosely inserted in this copy is a card folder containing the talisman of the Zos Kia Cultus, designed by Steffi Grant. This was only issued with the limited editions of this title.
Over fifty years ago, Kenneth and Steffi Grant met the artist Austin Osman Spare. A mutual passion for weird art brought them together at a time when Spare, in the final decade of his life, had turned again to writing about his other passion – the occult. Zos Speaks! is an account of their meetings with Spare. In addition to the numerous letters and diary entries from the period this book also contains Spare’s last great literary works: The Logomachy, The Zoetic Grimoire and The Living Word.
Here may be found a unique insight into Spare’s method of working with familiar spirits, “Delphic Oracles” and other strange formulae, including the legendary Witches’ Sabbath that Zos claimed to have attended on many occasions.