Newly released, a new feature documentary about the Australian Rosaleen Norton, The Witch of King’s Cross. It appears to have been made from a wide-eyed occultist perspective…

“Allegations of satanic rituals, obscene art and sex orgies in 1950s Sydney. Inspired by the work of Aleister Crowley, bohemian artist Rosaleen Norton…”

Before that mumbo-jumbo the young Norton was a possible Lovecraft correspondent, and certainly a far-flung acolyte. At age 15 in 1934 she wrote and published three tales that tried to closely mimic the master, but nothing thereafter. One of these tales echoed the lost 1907 Lovecraft story “The Picture”, and we know Lovecraft would send this story as ‘a re-write test’ to promising young writers such as Bloch. See my 4,000-word essay on the possibilities, in my book Historical Context #4.