Michael Houghton

Born: Unknown.

Died: circa 1956.

Michael Houghton, also known as Michael Juste, owned the famous Atlantis bookshop in Museum Street, London WC2, opposite the British Museum, and had founded it in 1922. He ran his magical group, the Order of Hidden Masters, from the shop and had a temple in the basement. Houghton knew everyone in the London occult circle of that period and was an associate of Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare.

He also edited the journal Occult Observer (1945-50), with contributions from leading occultists of the period. Under the pseudonym Michael Juste, Houghton published several volumes of poetry and a volume he described as an occult biography, The White Brother (1927).