A Dummy's Guide to the Occult

A Dummy's Guide to the Occult is a book from the Fansus timeline. The author belonged to the People's Committee for Openings, under the society's shared pseudonym of Chichiri the Charitable.

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If any other group had written this, it might be construed as an insult. But the People’s Committee for Openings is as close to an occult charitable society as one gets. Intended for mass consumption, one could almost read this to one’s children. It achieved brief literary success before the Suppression Bureau finally decided it was dangerous and removed it.

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The illustrations, curiously, are uncensored. And rather charming, too. Perhaps you won’t need the laudanum after this. Perhaps this can replace the laudanum.

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“And then the cultist invoked the ritual, became immortal, and lived happily ever after.” This could perhaps coax even Wakefield to moderation. And it has hardly been unhelpful...