thoughts from the blue curb

occult cosmology

• The Secret DoctrineHelena Petrovna Blavatsky

folklore & symbolism

• The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and FolkloreHilda M. Ransome

solomon island (wabanaki)

• Wabanaki Ethnography (placeholder)Various

Note: the exact title of the scholarly Wabanaki history book from the original post remains unidentified. It is likely a modern (1990s–2010s) title with a photo cover; leading candidates are Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine (Bruce J. Bourque, 2001) and The Mi'kmaq: Resistance, Accommodation, and Cultural Survival (Harald E.L. Prins, 1996), though neither is confirmed. Ruled out: Fannie Hardy Eckstorm's Old John Neptune and Other Maine Indian Shamans (1945) and Colin Calloway's Dawnland Encounters (1991).

agartha / hollow earth

• The Kingdom of AgartthaMarquis Saint-Yves d'Alveydre

valley of the sun god (egypt & rome)

• Akhenaten: Egypt's False ProphetNicholas Reeves
• The Complete TutankhamunNicholas Reeves
• The Cult of Sol InvictusGaston H. Halsberghe

the dragon

• Chaos: Making a New ScienceJames Gleick
• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and ChaosM. Mitchell Waldrop
• Tao Te Ching (trans. D.C. Lau)Lao Tzu
• The I Ching or Book of Changes (trans. Richard Wilhelm)Various
• The Art of War (Penguin Classics)Sun Tzu
• The Tao of PhysicsFritjof Capra
• Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern ChinaJohn A. Rapp

the templars

• The Templars: The History and the MythMichael Haag
• The New KnighthoodMalcolm Barber
• The Trial of the TemplarsMalcolm Barber

the illuminati

• PerfectibilistsTerry Melanson
• Foucault's Pendulum (fiction)Umberto Eco
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy (fiction)Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson

esoteric politics / secret societies

• Occult Features of AnarchismErica Lagalisse

the red hand (soviet union)

• The Occult in Russian and Soviet CultureBernice Glatzer Rosenthal (Ed.)
• Mysterious Phenomena of the Human PsycheLeonid L. Vasiliev
• Homo SovieticusWladimir Velminski
• Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research: The DIA Report from 1975DIA / Various
• Red ShambhalaAndrei Znamenski

league of monster slayers (kids on bikes trope)

• "Kids on Bikes in Twenty-First-Century Nostalgia Science Fiction" (book chapter)Jeremy Withers
• "Kids on Bikes: The Undiscovered Genre" (essay)Samuel Pratt-White
• "Bikes, Friendship, and the Unknown: The 'Kids-on-Bikes' Genre..." (essay)Various

the hell dimensions

• Paradise Lost (ed. Alastair Fowler, Longman Annotated English Poets, 2nd ed., 1998)John Milton
• Inferno, from The Divine Comedy (trans. Michael Palma, Norton Critical Edition)Dante Alighieri
• The Great Divorce (HarperOne, Standard Edition)C.S. Lewis

arthurian legend

• Le Morte d'Arthur (trans. Dorsey Armstrong, Hackett Publishing, 2009)Sir Thomas Malory

the filth (cosmic & philosophical horror)

• The Complete Fiction of H.P. LovecraftH.P. Lovecraft
• The Conspiracy against the Human Race (Penguin, 2018)Thomas Ligotti