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Church of Satan Book List

This is the list as originally published in Magistra Blanche Barton’s The Church of Satan as approved by Magus Anton Szandor LaVey.

Click on the links to the right to order the book in the style of your choice (hardcover-H, paperback-P, Kindle-K) from Amazon.com for the United States.

 

Book Title

Format

 

 

Non-fiction

 

 

 

Carl Jung: Man and His Symbols

P

 

 

Ben Hecht: Guide for the Bedevilled
1001 Afternoons in Chicago

and his fictional works Fantazius Mallare
and The Kingdom of Evil.

H
P

H P
H

 

 

Herbert Spencer: The Study of Sociology
Principles of Sociology

H P K
H P

 

 

James Yaffe: The American Jews

H P

 

 

Robert Eisler: Man Into Wolf

H P K

 

 

Peter Viereck: Metapolitics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind

P

 

 

Wilhelm Reich: The Function of the Orgasm,
Character Analysis

P
H P

 

 

Michael Foucault: Madness and Civilization

H P

 

 

Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
The Anti-Christ
Twilight of the Gods.

H P K
H P K
P K

 

 

Benjamin Walker: The Esoteric Encyclopedia of Man

H

 

 

The Johnson, Smith and Company Catalogue

H

 

 

Paul Fussell: Class

H P

 

 

Jan Howard Brunvand: The Vanishing Hitchhiker

H P

 

 

Daniel Mannix: History of Torture
Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others
The Hell-fire Club
The Beast

H P
P
P
P

 

 

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary

H K

 

 

H. L. Mencken: The American Language

H K

 

 

Dr. Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden: The Body Electric

H P

 

 

Niccolo Macchiavelli: The Prince

H P K

 

 

Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population

P

 

 

Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power

H P

 

 

Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams, etc.

P K

 

 

James A. Haught: Holy Horrors

H P K

 

 

Jerry Mander: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

H P

 

 

Dr. Robert U. Akeret: Photoanalysis

H P

 

 

 

Fiction

 

 

 

Charles Finney: The Circus of Dr. Lao

H P

 

 

Nathanael West: A Cool Million
(read any Horatio Alger book to get the full appreciation of West’s wit)

P

 

 

Robert W. Chambers: The King in Yellow

P K

 

 

A. Merritt: Seven Footprints to Satan

P

 

 

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground

H P K

 

 

Horatio Alger, Jr.
(Any of his books - delicious use of the English language and reinforces ethics of responsibility to the responsible)

Ragged Dick

 

 

P K

 

 

H. G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau
War of the Worlds

H P K
H P K

 

 

Terry Southern: The Magic Christian

H P K

 

 

Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

H P K

 

 

Bob Randall: The Fan

H P

 

 

Jeffrey Frank: The Creep

H P

 

 

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

H P K

 

 

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

H P K

 

 

Jack London: The Sea Wolf

P K

 

 

William Lindsay Gresham: Nightmare Alley
Monster Midway (non-fiction)

H P K
H

 

 

W. Somerset Maugham: Rain
A Writer’s Notebook (autobiographical sketches)

P K
H P K

 

 

George Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman

H P K

 

 

Cornell Woolrich: The Bride Wore Black
The Black Curtain

P
P

 

 

Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

P K

 

 

Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes

H P

 

 

Fred Saberhagen: The Dracula Tape (this novel allows the Count to speak
for himself, portraying himself as a misunderstood Satanic anti-hero)

P K

 

 

Anthology: H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft


Robert E. Howard: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

Frank Belknap Long: The Hounds of Tindalos

Clark Ashton Smith: The Return of the Sorcerer

August Derleth: The Cthulhu Mythos
The Watchers Out of Time (with HPL)

Ira Levin: Rosemary’s Baby

John Milton: Paradise Lost

P

K
H P

P K

H P

P K

H
P K

P K

H P K





 

 

 
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