John Stewart Moore lived from 1948 to 2019. He is survived by his wife and two sons, Simon and Alistair. He graduated with a BA hons in Philosophy from King’s College London in 1969.
John wrote five books, two of them about Aleister Crowley, both published by Mandrake of Oxford. With Mandrake he also published an illustrated book about the life and ideas of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Mandrake 2018).
He collaborated with and several times was a guest of Bulwer Lytton’s great great great grandson Henry Lytton Cobbold at Knebworth House. A paper he read at Knebworth about Bulwer-Lytton is published here, in addition to this essay on Bulwer-Lytton.
For many years he ran a popular online Nietzsche discussion forum. He read numerous papers at the annual Friedrich Nietzsche Society conferences held at various universities. Most of these can be found here or go via Papers in the main menu. He also wrote poetry, some of which is in his anthology 100 poems (2019). In addition he wrote a number of short stories and several plays, much of which can be seen here or go via Plays in the main menu.
John’s writing has also been published in the Watkins journal Mind, Body and Spirit and the anthology collection The Book of Lies.
John was an early adopter of the Internet and ran a website since the late 90s, mith.demon.co.uk which is no longer up, but his wikidot site, http://john-jsm.wikidot.com, remains online in addition to this one.
This website is maintained by John’s son Alistair. An interview by Mandrake’s founder Mogg Morgan of Alistair talking about his father and his work can be found here.