Florence, with Eva Gray as Pansy. In 1970 Symonds was appointed to the editorial board of Man, Myth & Magic Encyclopedia. He became literary executor to Gerald Hamilton, and, in 1974, published Conversations with Gerald, an account of Hamilton's adventures. He died on 21 October 2006 and was buried on the east side of Highgate Cemetery. References Bibliography Non-fiction The Great Beast. The Life of Aleister Crowley. London: Rider, 1951. 316pp., illus., with "Notes on the Horoscope of Aleister Crowley" by Rupert Gleadow & 'Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley' compiled by Gerald Yorke.' The Great Beast. The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley. London: Macdonald, 1971. viii, 413pp.,prt., with "Notes on the Horoscope of Aleister Crowley" by Rupert Gleadow. The King of the Shadow Realm. Aleister Crowley his life and magic. London: Duckworth, 1989. xi, 588pp., with 'Notes on the Horoscope of Aleister Crowley' by Rupert Gleadow. The Beast 666. The Life of Aleister Crowley. London: The Pindar Press, 1997. x, 608pp., with 'Notes on the Horoscope of Aleister Crowley' by Rupert Gleadow. The Magic of Aleister Crowley. London: Frederick Muller, 1958.209pp., illus. Fiction William Waste. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1947. 184pp. The Lady in the Tower (1955) A Girl Among Poets (1957) Bezill (1962) Light Over Water (1963) The Medusa's Head (1991) Children's Books The Stuffed Dog (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1967), illustrated by Edward Ardizzone External links "John Symonds – Obituary", The Telegraph, 11 November 2006, retrieved 10 May 2007. "John Symonds – Obituary", The Guardian, 22 November 2006. "John Symonds – Obituary", The Independent, 11 November 2006. English biographers English children's writers English fantasy writers English male journalists English occult writers English short story writers People from Battersea 1914 births 2006 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery English male short story writers English male novelists 20th-century English novelists 20th-century biographers 20th-century British short story writers 20th-century English male writers Male biographers