The Hasheesh Eater & Other Writings
Second Edition!
Dear Friends,
I would like to announce the publication of The Hasheesh Eater & Other Writings 2nd Edition!
Been working on this for a while, compiling art and writings (From Fritz Hugh Ludlow and others from the time period)
Here is a general run down what is new in the volume:
(From The Archives)
Chronology ff the Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Reviews Of “The Hasheesh Eater” (From the 1850’s on)
What shall They do to be Saved?
The Apocalypse of Hasheesh
The Vision of Hasheesh – Bayard Taylor
The Vial of Dread
E Pluribus Unum
(Inclusive of 11 additional illustrations not included in the first edition!)
232 Pages, 30+ Unique Images. Crafted Details on Each Page.
The Soft Cover, runs $45.00 inclusive of shipping
The Hard Cover, runs $55.00 inclusive of shipping
Here is a link to purchase either volume!
The Hasheesh Eater & Other Writings 2nd Ed
I hope that you find this as exciting as I do. More publishing updates soon, and new Substacks are on the way!
Thanks ever so much!
Bright Blessings!
Gwyllm
Very excited!
Robert DeRopp, in the 1957 book Drugs and the Mind, was perhaps the first to express skepticism at Ludlow’s “addiction” story, noting that “[n]o one seriously interested in the effects of drugs on the mind should fail to read Ludlow’s book,” but accusing Ludlow of a “hypertrophy of the imagination and an excessive dependence on the works of De Quincey” (although he also found The Hasheesh Eater to be “more lively and more colorful reading than… the grossly overrated confessions of that ‘English opium-eater.’”). DeRopp suspected that “in many places scientific impartiality has been sacrificed in the interests of literary effect.”