Authors & Artists
Peter Hamilton-Giles
Peter Hamilton-Giles is an author and researcher of the esoteric, academically trained in anthropology and religious studies his primary interest is in occult philosophy. He is co-founder of the Dragons’ Column along with Andrew Chumbley. His first book was The Afflicted Mirror published by Three Hands Press in 2013, this was followed by The Baron Citadel also published by Three Hands Press in 2015, since then he has written two books for Atramentous Press, his first was The Witching-Other published in 2017 which was followed by Standing at the Crossroads in 2018. He is currently working on the long anticipated follow up to the Dragon Book of Essex (A.D.Chumbley, 2014), Book of the Black Dragon. His primary interests are in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics and how these apply to an occult context.
Carolyn Hamilton-Giles
Carolyn Hamilton-Giles is a self-taught artist and has had her work featured in a number of Three Hands Press titles, these include the journal Clavis, The Baron Citadel, Witch-Ikon, The Witching-Other, as well as being included in a THP art exhibition in Los Angeles in 2011. Using techniques such as automatic drawing and trance induced separation, Carolyn has created a unique form of art that has included creating covers for Atramentous Press books.
Daniel Yates
Theology researcher, folklorist, and occult photographer Daniel Yates has spent over twenty years dedicated to grassroots research into witchcraft practices in northern England. His current postgraduate research is focused on ritual practices in pre-Roman Lancashire. This background has informed a lot of the photographic work he has undertaken, which has seen publication in his book Arcanum alongside PILLARS: Circling the Compass (both under Anathema Publishing), Wyrd Vol 3 and Witch-Ikon (Three Hands Press). An extensive collection of his work will also feature in the forthcoming Ritual Space and the Crooked Path Beyond (Atramentous Press).
David Herrerias
David Herrerias is a self–taught artist born in Mexico City in 1982. His work has been exhibited at Murmurs Beyond the Grave in Los Angeles in 2014, Kulturhuset Nordvest, HDDT, Copenhagen in 2015, Mortlake and Co., Witch-ikon: An Exhibition of Contemporary Witchcraft Imagery, Seattle in 2017, among others.
Some of his paintings and drawings have been featured in music releases as album covers and illustrated books from publishers such as Ixaxaar, Anathema Publishing and Ex Occidente Press with The Whore is this Temple. He has also had artwork featured in Clavis and worked with Three Hands Press in recent years. Atramentous Press has lately been working closely with David and is currently taking orders for David’s debut The Book of Q’ab iTz. David currently resides in Gothenberg, Sweden having moved there in 2006, and it is in this location that he continues to work as a practitioner of the crooked path and aspiring artist.
Richard Suggett
Richard Suggett is a historian, currently senior investigator at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, and Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. He is the author of the A History of Magic and Witchcraft in Wales (2005) as well as studies on the architecture and social history of medieval and later Wales. Through Atramentous Press he has released Welsh Witches (2018).
Ian C. Edwards PhD
Dr. Edwards is a licensed psychologist in private practice and holds both administrative and clinical positions at Duquesne University in Pennsylvania. As a writer, he describes his approach as “dialectical non-dualism,” where he infuses the act of writing with method and content, through a spiritual phenomenology that attempts to inscribe the sacred as a self-referential embrace which reconciles the psycho-spiritual spaces in which dualities and oppositions such as being and non-being, good and evil, self and other are made manifest.
He is the author of Being and Non-Being in Occult Experience Volume I: Liber AL vel Legis (2021) and Being and Non-Being in Occult Experience Volume II: The Chiasmata of Austin Osman Spare (2022), both published by Atramentous Press. Dr. Edwards is also the author of “The Divine Hearth and Radical Hospitality,” which appeared in PILLARS - A Wayfarer’s Hearth (Vol. 2, Issue 3) and the forthcoming A Druid in Psychologist’s Clothing: E. Graham Howe’s Secret Druidic Doctrine, both published by Anathema Publishing. He reads occult texts using a method that combines grammatology with a participatory epistemology that explores and describes ontologies of deific forms.
Stephanie Spoto PhD
Stephanie Spoto completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, looking at the intersections of gender and demonology in seventeenth century occultism. Since then, her work on feminism, race, and the occult as been published in Critical Philosophy of Race, Abraxis, Journal of Feminist Scholarship, and others. Her current project for explores the history of sex magic and the use of the erotic to transcend mind-body dualism. Lilith, Gender, and Demonology (Atramentous Press, 2021) is her first book. Outside of writing, Spoto helps manage a small independent bookstore in Monterey, California where she hosts poetry writing workshops and a long-running philosophy reading group. She also teaches literature and philosophy at California State University, Monterey Bay and Monterey Peninsula College.
Shea Bilé
Shea Bilé is an author, occult lecturer, musician, performance artist, and podcast host. A researcher and devotee of esoteric practice for nearly 25 years, his committed adherence to subversive forms of spiritual expression has served as a vital foundation for his work. He has conducted lectures and workshops throughout the United States and beyond, primarily on subjects related to Left Hand Path occultism and religious heterodoxy. His occult writings, as well as his poetry, have appeared in numerous print and digital publications, his most recent being, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Left Hand Path, a book of occult philosophy published by Atramentous Press.
Shea Bilé holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in religious studies from San Francisco State University, in San Francisco, California, and a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), in Leuven, Belgium.
Kayla Mavrakis
Kayla Mavrakis is a ritualistic visual artist and Talismanic painter. Her artwork is informed by her religious praxis seeded within the Goetic tradition, a magickal custom that blurs the line between art and devotion. Her primary medium is acrylic on canvas; influenced by the abstract tradition, she often utilizes her craft to transfigure and illuminate endarkened esoteric themes. Her paintings have been sold worldwide and featured in various occult publications and visual esoteric projects. She recently illustrated the occult philosophical treatise Friedrich Nietzsche and the Left Hand Path, to be published by Atramentous Press in early 2023.