Descend Into the Waters Where Death Herself Awaits

There is a Sabbat older than the witch trials, older than the grimoires—a gathering not of flesh, but of spirit, where the boundary between the living and the dead dissolves into black water. Sabbatica: The Seas of Death and the Arcana of Death Bringer is an invitation to that gathering.

Under the editorial guidance of Edgar Kerval, this anthology brings together thirteen practitioners and scholars of the necromantic and death-centered magickal traditions, offering readers a rare and unflinching descent into humanity's oldest mystery: our relationship with death, the dead, and the dark currents that flow between the two worlds.

This is not a book of comfortable metaphors. Sabbatica is a working grimoire—part ritual text, part esoteric scholarship, part firsthand account of communion with the beyond.

What Lies Beneath the Black Water

Sean Woodward opens the anthology with The Death and Resurrection Show, setting the tone for a journey that treats death not as an ending, but as a threshold to be crossed and re-crossed.

S. Ben Qayin contributes two powerful works—Dead But Dreaming, exploring the ancient arte of necromancy and the calling of the fallen, followed by Drawing Forth the Dead, a full necromantic ritual of re-awakening for the serious practitioner.

Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold guides readers through The Waters of Death and the Graveyard of Stars, a meditation on death's cosmic and oceanic dimensions.

Hermeticusnath (Aion 131) presents the Nathtantrika Pitra Paksha Puja, a sacred rite honoring ancestors and the hallowed dead drawn from Tantric tradition.

Ljóssál Loðursson returns with The Last Touch of the Great Poisoner, while Edgar Kerval himself contributes The Crown of Black Thorns, a profound exploration and invocation of Death as Holy Mother.

Claudio Carvalho examines The Triumph of Death, and Andrew Dixon & Sarah Price bring an anthropological and magickal lens to Arutam, Muisak, Nekas: Three Souls of the Shuar, drawing on indigenous Amazonian tradition.

Bradley Allen Bennett offers In the Garden of Bones, working with death and the dead through the lens of Pan-Aeonic Witchcraft, while Dante Miel confronts the shadow psychology of Death Magik and the Psychic Spiritual Nature of Revenge.

Kyle Fite delivers the hauntingly titled Seven Feet Under: The Heart of Fire Beneath the Tongue of Silence, and the volume closes with Robert Angelo Dalla Valle's automatic writing provocation, Justitia Omnibus—a channeled work that blurs the line between author and oracle.

Why Sabbatica Belongs on Your Shelf

This anthology stands as one of the most comprehensive gatherings of death-focused magickal practice available today, weaving together:

✦ Necromantic ritual and practical grimoire material✦ Cross-cultural death traditions—from Tantric ancestor veneration to Amazonian soul-lore✦ Pan-Aeonic and left-hand path approaches to mortality and the dead✦ Firsthand invocations of Death as goddess, teacher, and gateway✦ Automatic writing and channeled esoteric material

Edited with the same rigor and vision Edgar Kerval brought to the acclaimed Qliphoth Opus series, Sabbatica continues Nephilim Press's tradition of assembling authentic voices from the modern occult underground into cohesive, powerful anthologies.

"Death is not the enemy of magick—it is magick's oldest teacher. To sail the Seas of Death is to learn what the living cannot teach: the true nature of transformation."