"In his new book The Rag & Bone Man , Lee Morgan shares the story of a young man who navigates the magical world of spirits, witchcraft, and forbidden love. In this delightful tale we follow along with Henry as he explores the unforeseen world of magick and passion. As Henry learns the deeper mysteries of magick, so too, does he learn the mysteries of the heart." --Chris Allaun, author of Whispers from the Coven " The Rag & Bone Man is a beautifully written and provocative work. First, we feast on the Victorian and spiritualist origins of many of our current practices in witchcraft, and open to ways of making new things out of the gatherings of the forgotten. Almost like time travellers, we next enter a novel, following a memoir and coming-of-age journey. Henry is an exquisite and poetic being, deemed a changeling, full of sensibility and mediumship, striving to find allies in an era curious by what he can offer, but denying of who he is. There is magic throughout, always coming from the dark corners, marginal and social misfits and stopped clocks.

Through a synesthetic narrative, we are drawn in and carried page after page into the fascination of séances and the language of the dead. After this deep dive into the poetry and the sensorial, we are gifted with a few pages inviting us to experiment with communicating and communing with the dead, but firstly with the ancestors that inhabit our own bodies, emotions and shortcomings. To give voice to the unheard, to those who were silenced - and this is such a potent and enticing invitation that I have no choice but to accept." --Petrucia Finkler, author, astrologer, and death midwife "In over three decades of devotion to stories and storytelling, I have never encountered a story like The Rag & Bone Man . To call it a mere a coming-of-age story is a grave disservice. It is a skin-switcher of a tale; much like it''s titular entity--who may be a ghost, a vagrant, an angel, the Devil himself, an echo of the past, a vision of the future, or all and none of these--it shifts and spills like mercury between times and places, forms and tenses, flowing from firelit mountain forests to candlelit séance tables, from childhood to adulthood, before birth to beyond death. It walks in bared feet between abominable humanity and sacred monstrosity, disguise and authenticity, one voice and All Voices. The novel revolves around the savagely beautiful landscapes of turn-of-the-century Hobart, reflected in the inimitable cast of characters who live and love, suffer and triumph within it, and--at last--holds high a firebrand of haunted love that neither death nor time can extinguish.

" --James Graham Nelson, writer and poet "I slackened my pace to luxuriate in Morgan''s bewitching tale. I was under a faerie spell, intoxicated, as if in a laudanum dream and not willing to wake. I was transported back to gloomy Hobart Town in the mid-1800s where old Irish magic, spirits, and sexuality boil and bubble under the thin veil of respectability. He has beautifully captured the haunted soul of Tasmania and resurrected a cast of lost characters that once roamed the back streets of Hobart. I like to believe that they still do." --Natasha Buchanan, educational leader "Many times in my life I have felt the wyrd coils of fate tighten and relax around me - and The Rag and Bone Man is a hollow bone flute through which many of those serpents fall and rise. This living grimoire of flesh and flood offers to us a feast of what is now needed, what we desire. My own head, heart, and hands are lit aflame with ancient love in reading these pages, in swimming in these secrets laid out on the seance table.

I desire my occultism and witchcraft always to be visceral and filled with holy longing and potent risk - The Rag and Bone Ma n is this consummation and hope. Love drenches us so deeply that beyond death, we remember. Lee Morgan enchants, incomparably." --Fio Gede Parma, author of The Witch Belongs to the World and Ecstatic Witchcraft.