Book: The Revolt of the Angels, Anatole France
A satire about atheist angels plotting anarchist revolution against Heaven.
Book: Paradise Lost, John Milton
The original Satanic classic, an epic English poem recounting the story of Genesis with Satan as the protagonist.
Book: Tell My Horse, Zora Neale Hurston
This account of Carribbean voodoo explores what happens when religion adapts to violence, persecution, and exploitation.
Book: The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
Feminist folklore explores the basic elements of fairy tale storytelling: horror, gothicism, taboo, and the place of women in storytelling and society.
Book: Satan’s Silence, Debbie Nathan
A firsthand accounts of the Satanic Panic and its roots in societal anxiety, sexual shame, cultural xenophobia, and religious zeal.
Book: Remembering Satan, Lawrence Wright
There was no cult, and the crimes never happened. But Paul Ingram confessed anyway; he believed he was guilty, and even that he “remembered” doing it all.
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