The Infernal Texts: Nox & Liber Koth

By Stefan Isaksson

The Infernal Texts: Nox & Liber Koth
Stephen Sennitt
New Falcon Publications
119 pages
ISBN: 1561842346

Stephen Sennitt, member of The Esoteric Order of Dagon, has been involved in the occult for many years. In 1986, he founded NOX magazine, dedicated to Chaos Magic and influenced by, among other, Kenneth Grant and H.P. Lovecraft. The magazine also worked as a forum for others interested in the “dark” side of the occult, and eventually it became quite successful. Sennitt has been involved in the occult ever since.

The Infernal Texts was originally published as two separate volumes, Liber Koth (1997) and Nox: The Black Book (1998). The present volume is an anthology which, according to the author, is “on the cutting-edge of modern sinister occultism!”, and it’s made up of two parts, Nox and Liber Koth. Nox is separated into three sections:

The first, The Order of the Nine Angles, consists of different essays from the satanic organization with the same name. This particular group has gotten a bad rep within certain circles, because of its ties to the extreme right, but nonetheless, the essays are still well-written and have a wealth of information for anybody interested in their view of Satanism.

The second part, The Werewolf Order, deals with the group with the same name, founded by Nikolas Schreck, and this too has much interesting things to offer.

The third part of Noz, The Nameless Sodality, has several different essays written by different names within the occult, all with different backgrounds but all devoted to the Left Hand Path.

The second part of the book, Liber Koth, has several different invocations all inspired by the mythology of H.P. Lovecraft, for instance Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu. This part is more of a practical nature compared to the first part’s theoretical focus.

Overall, The Infernal Texts is mostly written to already practicing magicians. It’s not written for beginners to the occult of the Left Hand Path, and if you don’t feel like practicing magic, then I doubt you’ll find it very interesting. However, if you ARE a student of the “sinister occultism”, then you should definitely give it a try.