Gerald Suster (b. 2 August 1951 in Hampstead (London); d. 3 February 2001 in London) was a British historian, occult writer, and novelist. He was best known for his biographies of Aleister Crowley (The Legacy of the Beast) and Israel Regardie (Crowley's Apprentice).
Biography
Suster's father was Ilya Suster, an entrepreneur in the egg products industry, who was born Ilya Shusterovich in Harbin, Manchuria on October 17, 1914), grew up in Hamburg, Germany, and emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom in 1939. Gerald Suster was married twice, in 1975 to Ann Nash (marriage dissolved) and in 1992 to Michaela Antonina Duncan (1948-2001).
Bibliography
Fiction
- The Devil's Maze (1979)
- The Elect (1980)
- Hitler and the Age of Horus (1981)
- The Scar (1981)
- The Offering (1982)
- The Block (1983)
- Stryker (1984)
- The Force (1984)
- The Handyman (1985)
- The God Game (1986)
- The Labyrinth of Satan (1997)
Non-fiction
- Hitler: The Occult Messiah (1981)
- The Legacy of the Beast: The Life, Work, and Influence of Aleister Crowley (1988)
- John Dee: Essential Readings (1986)
- Hitler, Black Magician (1987)
- Crowley's Apprentice: The Life and Ideas of Israel Regardie (1989)
- The Truth About the Tarot: A Manual of Practice and Theory (1996)
- The Hell-Fire Friars: Sex, Politics & Religion (2000)
References
- Grigori, Vivien. Obituary: Gerald Suster in The Independent, February 16, 2001
- Mortimer, George T. gerald suster (1951-2001): a remembrance