Reading List

Primary Reading

• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (2011)

• Speak Of the Devil: The Way the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion by Joseph P. Laycock (2020)

• Revolt Of the Angels by Anatole France (1914)

Literary Satanism

• America: A Prophecy by William Blake (1793)

• Cain: A Mystery by Lord Byron (1821)

• Consuelo by George Sand (1861)

• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320)

• Eloa by Alfred De Vigny (1823)

• An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin (1793)

• Essay on The Devil and Devils by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819)

• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)

• La-Bas By Joris K. Huysmans (1891)

• Litanies Of Satan by Charles Baudelaire (from The Flowers Of Evil, 1857)

• The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell by William Blake (1790)

• The Master and Margarita By Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)

• Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)

• Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)

• Romantic Satanism: Myth and The Historical Moment in Blake, Shelley and Byron by Peter A. Schock (2003)

• The Satanic Epic by Neil Forsyth (2003)

• On Shakespeare And Milton by William Hazlitt (1818)

• Speak Of the Devil: An Anthology of Demonology by Sterling North & C.B. Boutell (1945)

History of Satanism

• The Affair of The Poisons by Anne Somerset (2003)

• Children Of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism by Ruben Van Luijk (2016)

• The Devil: A New Biography By Philip C. Almond (2014)

• The Devil and The Jews by Joshua Trachtenber  (1943)

• The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity by Per Faxneld & Jesper Aa. Petersen (2012)

• The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism by Jesper Aagard Petersen (2006)

• The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in The Western World By John Demos (2008)

• Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom By Norman Cohn (2001)

• Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History by David Frankfurter (2008)

• Here's To My Sweet Satan: How the Occult Haunted Music, Movies and Pop Culture, 1966-1980 by George Case (2016)

• The Invention of Satanism by Asbjorn Dyrendal, James R. Lewis, And Jesper Aa. Petersen (2015)

• The Old Enemy by Neil Forsyth (1987)

• The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels (1995)

• The Satanism Scare by Joel Best (1991)

• Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and The Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt by Debbie Nathan & Michael Snedeker (2001)   

Satanism Today

• Compassionate Satanism: An Introduction to Modern Satanic Practice By Lilith Starr (2021)

• The Happy Satanist by Lilith Starr (2015)

• The Last Illusion by Clive Barker with Essay by Lucien Greaves (2016)

• Satanic Feminism by Per Faxneld (2014)

Related Topics

• A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill (2002)

• The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan (1995)

• Fire And Light by James Macgregor Burns (2013)

• Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby (2004)

• God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin (1882)

• Inventing A Christian America: The Myth of The Religious Founding by Steven K. Green (2015)

• Little Book of Satanism by La Carmina (2022)

• One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse (2015)

• Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and The Creation of The Modern State, 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski (1848)

• The Soul Machine by George Makari (2015)