Occult Fiction

Last year I read the following books:

- The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune
- Moon Magic by Dion Fortune
- The puppet master by Liz Greene

And I really liked them! Even since I have been looking for other book of GOOD occult fiction, but haven't found any. The books I come across are either plain fantasy (even if they happen in the modern world) or thriller involving vampires, satanic rituals and secret societies. None of the have the subtle occultism and mysticism that the books above have...

I was wondering if anyone could give me some recommendations in the comments for books to look out for?

Thank you in advance! :)

From an LT review which led me to buy the book:

In an Oxford lecture earlier this year, literary critic James Wood suggested that the "New Atheists" might be well served by looking to the modern novel. He says atheists -- and some Christian fundamentalists -- insist too much on polemic literalism. Novels, he said, are a vehicle to explore theological arguments and make real the often inherent contradictions of belief. And although Wood mentions 1998 Nobel Literature laureate José Saramago, a reader can't help but wonder just where Saramago's final novel, Cain, fits in that picture.

Cain is an assiduous indictment of the God of the Old Testament by re-imagining the brief tale the Bible tells of the title character. Saramago, who died last year, made his position clear on the book's release in Europe in 2009. He said the Bible depicts a "cruel, spiteful, vengeful, jealous and unbearable God" and recommending people not trust that God. The book is Saramago's extended literary argument on that point, frequently from Cain's mouth.

Saramago's story of Cain killing his brother Abel is just the starting point. God's judgment after Abel's death is for Cain to be "a restless wanderer." In Saramago's hands, he wanders the Book of Genesis, aided by the fact he can go back and forth in time. Cain visits the Tower of Babel, is present as Abraham prepares to sacrifice Isaac and joins Noah on the ark, but not in the chronological order in which these events appear in the Bible........

quicksiva I heard a lot of people say wonderful things about Saramago's Cain! Wow! I'll check it out!

Thank you for the suggestion! :)

Two I remember having read years ago were Living in Ether by Patricia Geary and a short story collection called San Diego Lightfoot Sue by Tom Reamy.

Have you read Foucault's Pendulum? Lots of Hermeticism.

Turns out to be a joke at the end, though. But there was stuff to be learned. Be picky. The info on why you shouldn't self publish seemed legit.

You might also be interested in the Illuminatus novels by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. RAW also wrote the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy. I also like the Bast mysteries by Rosemary Edghill and the Rowan Gant mysteries by M. R. Sellars.

The Return by Carter Vance has been likened to The Da Vinci Code by some reviewers

the characters actively use astrology in this story.

it also feautures dec 2012

It's been a few months since anyone has been in this thread, but I can make a few recommendations.
Moon Child by Aleister Crowley
Dance of the Goblins by Jaq D Hawkins
and the sequel Demoniac Dance (These are written as Fantasy, but by a known occult author and the magic is realistic and subtle).
The Black Alchemist by Andrew Collins
Against the Light by Kenneth Grant
There are others by these authors but these are a good selection.

The Golden Ass by Apuleius was probably saved from the flames of the church because it is so funny.