How to Win Friends and Sacrifice People: A User's Guide to Pop Culture Satanism
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Pop culture and Satanism. Worlds apart or woven together? In How to Win Friends and Sacrifice People, Gavin Baddeley offers an entertaining analysis of how pop culture has both influenced and been influenced by satanic cults.
Using a collage of luridly colorful and sinful material culled from the underbelly of modern entertainment – from soft porn and comic books to computer games and metal fanzines – the book explores the ways in which the occult gospel has long been spread via the disreputable media of prurient pulp literature, degenerate grindhouse cinema and infernal shock rock.
From the satanic film scandals of the silent-movie era to hipster dalliances with the Devil in 1930s New York. From the bestselling black-magic thrillers of Dennis Wheatley to the hellish undercurrents of 1960s psychedelia. From the media frenzy surrounding films like Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist to the 1990s emergence of occult-fuelled Scandinavian Black Metal. Baddeley reveals Satanism’s long-standing flirtation with the mainstream, the moral panic that surrounded it, and the reality behind it all.
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