Twilight Candelabra by William J. Craddock

Craddock has been called one of the seminal chroniclers of the psychedelic period, along with Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and Andrew Weil. Those 'works' to the drug/anti-drug stuff since then.(age 57) Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, United States of Americaĭoubleday published Craddock's books: A Subterranean Journal in 1970, and Twilight Candelabra in 1972. So, do other out there have their favorite lsd novels, films, exploitativeįiction, or reportage? It might be fun to get a list going and compare One of the better films has to be the Jack Nicholson

Interested in trying the stuff after watching some film in 1968 in gymĬlass), but most of these works were, like Reefer Madness, laughable in OfĬourse, there are tons of exploitative works, from Go Ask Alice to thatĪnti-drug crap they showed in junior high (which, by the way, made me very I am reminded of Kesey's Cuckoo's Nest and The Butterfly Kid by ChesterĪnderson, but these two novels have other intentions, which changes theįocus of the narrative from the drug experience to those intentions. Science) and none that I can think of come as close as Craddock manages to. Lsd experience both as reportage and fiction (and as sensationalism or Writers of all types have attempted to chronicle the Quart jars with liquid acid and drinks the stuff over a period of a fewĭays (one assumes).

Mark Vonnegut's Eden Express gives one the feeling of a schizophrenicĮxperience, so does Craddock's book give one the feeling of taking lsd,Įspecially the final chapters wherein the protagonist fills up a couple Week after getting it through our library's interlibrary loan service and,Īppropriately enough, it was like having a flashback. Of the novel's protagonist and is quite well done. Within the context of countercultural literature.Īnyhow, this excerpt details an acid test experience through the minds-eye Craddock also published another book entitled TwilightĬandelabra in 1973 which was considerably more occultish and obscure, even Into the band-oriented stuff, but do want to mention an excerpt from a bookīy the counterculture author William J. This book is a collection of articles, interviews, musings,Īnd excerpts from ficitonal narratives concerning the music, personalities,Īnd subculture that the band represented and were a part of. Recently, Oxford University Press published a volume titled The Gratefulĭead Reader. Next in thread: Peter Levy: 'Re: To Nader or not to Nader'.

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Twilight Candelabra by William J. Craddock