Sex and Drugs and the Major Arcana
The whole novel is about being seduced. These seductions are manifold – desire and addiction, power and pleasure, the material world and the occult, the obsessions with sex, the tarot and the body. In the background, the threat of fascism, Nazis, General Franco and de-individualisation by the state. Maria and Martin rebel against ‘power’ by enacting their own events of bondage and domination, the fear instilled by fascism elaborated in the horror movies they watch obsessively and the Dark Grimoire Tarot – based on H. P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon – they use to divine their own ‘reality.’
Steve Finbow reviews Stewart Home‘s She’s My Witch.