As far as all the post Crowley occultists go my personal favorite is Kenneth Grant, the head of the Typhonian Order (previously the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis). His books are often dismissed as impenetrable, filled with weird imagery versus literal truth and lacking of formulas and magickal recipes. The thing is, there are thousands of books that will tell you that stuff; if you do ____ then ____ will occur, etc., but very few that can really describe the fucked headspace required for magickal acts quite like Grant.
Grant’s main trip is riding the Typhonian current, Typhon being the feminine aspect of Set, banished to the underworld by Horus for killing Osiris. (Was the film The Warriors a modern retelling of this tale?) Mix that with a healthy dose of menstral blood, Dogon, voudon, Sumerian gods, HP Lovecraft, bestial etymology and you have an idea of what he is talking about.
It should also be noted that Grant was an early proponent of Austin Osman Spare and Michael Bertiaux, who knows if either would be in the modern magickal lexicon without him.
His wife Steffi Grant is a frequent collaborator with him, and from what I can tell she is responsible for all the covers of his books.
His books are extremely difficult to come by, if interested try eBay, Weiser Antiquarian Books, Fulgur occasionally publishes reprints and new ones but they go out of print quickly.
Peter R. Koenig’s OTO gossip site has a lot of info on why or why not he should be the Outer Head of the OTO.
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