I've read some of this book. Pretty crazy true-life stories. I think I found it at the same used bookstore that I found the similar Blood Cults, by Charles Lefebure. Gotta love the witchcraft/Satanism boom that happened around 1970... there were crazy books and movies popping up all over the place.
Amen to The Devil's Own. All factual accounts, somewhat tabloid-ized to emphasize their Satanicness (and with lots of exclamation points throughout! to add to the unspeakable horror!), but decent introductions to Mr. Crowley and his peers through history. Thanks for posting.
Too Much Horror Fiction collects and reviews vintage horror literature (mostly from the 1960s to the early 1990s) and celebrates its resplendent paperback cover art. Welcome!
With Grady Hendrix, I co-wrote the Stoker Award-winning PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: THE TWISTED HISTORY OF '70s AND '80s HORROR FICTION (2017) from Quirk Books. I also own a couple thousand vintage paperbacks most of which are horror but also SF, crime, & general fiction. Always adding more to the home library!
Looking for a forgotten horror novel or short story? Remember the paperback cover art but not the title or author? Send me an email at toomuchhorrorfiction[at]gmail.com describing it and if I don't know it, one of my readers might!
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I've read some of this book. Pretty crazy true-life stories. I think I found it at the same used bookstore that I found the similar Blood Cults, by Charles Lefebure. Gotta love the witchcraft/Satanism boom that happened around 1970... there were crazy books and movies popping up all over the place.
Amen to The Devil's Own. All factual accounts, somewhat tabloid-ized to emphasize their Satanicness (and with lots of exclamation points throughout! to add to the unspeakable horror!), but decent introductions to Mr. Crowley and his peers through history. Thanks for posting.
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