Aleister Crowley's controversial book of risqué verse was clandestinely published in Amsterdam in 1898 and of the hundred copies that were imported into England, only a handful were spared destruction by the British Government. Inspired byPsychopathia Sexualis, Richard Krafft-Ebing's controversial study of sexual perversity,White Stains purports to be 'the literary remains of George Archibald Bishop, a neuropath of the Second Empire.'

This new 2019 edition ofWhite Stains from Osiris includes new footnotes and illustrations.