In Edwardian Paris, brilliant surgeon Arthur Burdon is engaged to beautiful Margaret Dauncey, accompanied by her loyal friend, artist Susie Boyd. They encounter enigmatic Oliver Haddo—a wealthy, obese occultist claiming alchemical mastery. Haddo, inspired by Aleister Crowley, seduces and marries Margaret, drawing her into depravity.
While Arthur remains blind, Susie spies Haddo’s true nature: tentacled astral projections, ritual abuse, and experiments creating daemonic homunculi fed on virgin blood. Margaret descends into addiction and submission.
Susie, contemptuous of weakness, murders to steal Haddo’s forbidden texts, performs blood rituals, and binds young Oswald Pendleton as lover and disciple through explicit sex magick.
Praise for The Magician:
"Now G.G. MacLeod reimagines the classic book first written by Somerset Maugham. Added is some taboo and gore that a 1908 audience would not have tolerated. Still, the additions probably reflect the true extremes alchemy caused in the lives of three Europeans back in 1908."
~ Christopher, 5* Amazon Review
G.G. MacLeod is a 59-year-old Canadian male based in Calgary.
The author has always had a tendency of combining genres like horror and action along with drama, psychological thrillers, giallo, and sometimes even comedy.
It really depends on how the author feels from moment to moment as they write because the author likes to entertain themselves first and then hope that a smattering of other people out there in the world will like it as well.Twitter / X • Instagram • TikTok • Amazon Author Page • Goodreads
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