Ithell Colquhoun was a painter and writer who, along with Eileen Agar and Leonora Carrington, is one of the best-known English Women Surrealists. A close friend of Andre Breton she was also, for a time, associated with Aleister Crowley.
'Some of the allegories used in this book may be disturbing to readers unless they are understood.' - Theosophical Journal, September 1962 'Goose of Hermogenes lurks somewhere between the territory of Beardsley and Mr Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast. I shudderingly enjoyed it.' - Guardian 'Miss Colquhoun sometimes recalls Anna Kavan in the exquisite setting down of her dream imagery, and the whole novel possesses a haunting, visionary quality most uncommon in present-day prose.' - Daily Telegraph 'The writer is a poet with a powerful visual imagination, an unusual gift of imagery, and possesses great beauty of language. The description of places and particularly vegetation haunt the memory, although so much of her writing is tainted with that sinister quality of underlying menace and mystery so often experienced in nightmares. At moments, indeed, it calls to mind the charnal house atmosphere of much of Edgar Allen Poe's work and repels by something evil and degenerate, particularly towards the end with the description of black magic rites.' - Tomorrow
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