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Clearly, this post stands best as a companion piece to the vintage King Novelty Curio Catalog, posted on this blog last May. (Click to follow link)

In addition to other subject matter, Dorene Publishing printed many books on the Occult - - The sort that would show up in curio catalogs.

'Terrors of the Evil Eye Exposed' was originally released in 1946 by Raymond Publishing, and was written by 'Henri Gamache' a pseudonym for an otherwise unknown author of many books on the occult.

Lewis De Claremont may have been just another pen name for the same author.

'The Ancient's Book of Magic' was written by De Claremont, as was 'The Ten Lost Books of The Prophets', which is still in print.

Annotated text from De Claremont's 'The Ancient Book of Formulas' can be viewed in the 'Hoodoo in Theory and Practice' section of
Cat Yronwode's amazing and informative Lucky Mojo website.