Occult transmutations: A creative experiment in fictionalized scholarship
Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance March 1, 2026 Marcus Nicholls
This article investigates the relationship between a neglected strand of western esotericism – Laeveticism – and practices of experimental creative adaptation. The article first summarizes the Laevetic tradition and its adaptive resonances, before discussing a series of historical adaptations. Many of these exist only as traces in other works, but they establish a tradition of Laevetic...