Miskatonic University

Hoping to demonstrate the importance of their arcane Magickal skills and often dangerous psychical work—as well as hoping to draw in some new recruits (for “fresh meat”)—M.U.'s Department of Medieval Magick has decided to reveal one of their most important field cases—explicitly, to a select (and perhaps dangerously naïve) public.  The tale that our faculty of heroic Wizards has chosen to reveal has been dubbed “The Hollywood Horror ” by both yellow journalists and the serious press.  But despite this rather catchy and slightly provocative name, it truly describes one of the most harrowing episodes that humanity has ever faced.  However, because the attention span of many readers is so woefully inadequate—due to possible dark entity incursion—they decided to recast this true-life horror story as a useful travel guide to everything weird about Los Angeles.  So, in addition to learning all about the abominable Wizard Aleister Crowley—and his brilliant "sorcerer's apprentice," Jack Whiteside Parsons—readers can also simultaneously feast on a bizarre banquet of strange facts and locations related to Southern California.  Indeed, LA is one of the weirdest and most magickal cities in the world.