Biography:
Simon has been a student of magic, occultism, and religion since the mid 1960s as well as the editor of the Necronomicon. He was a frequent lecturer for the famed Warlock Shop in Brooklyn Heights and the Magickal Childe bookstore in Manhattan for more than ten years before his sudden disappearance in 1984, speaking on topics as diverse as religion and politics, occultism and fascism, ceremonial magic, demonolatry, the Tarot, the Qabala, and Asian occult systems. An ordained priest of an Eastern Orthodox Church, Simon has appeared on television and radio discussing such topics as exorcism, Satanism and Nazism. After decades of study in European, Asian and Latin American cult centers, his book, Dead Names, marks his first public appearance in more than twenty years.