Recounts the life of the founder of the Church of Satan and discusses its doctrines

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton Lavey

Religion & Spirituality

Barton, Blanche

Occult & Paranormal

Feral House

The true story, from inside, of Anton LaVey.

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

The last book of essays by Church of Satan founder LaVey.

Satan Speaks!

Humor & Entertainment

Manson, Marilyn

Anton Szandor LA Vey

Anton Szandor LaVey

Humor

Blanche Barton, Anton LaVey's authorized biographer, gives a straight-from-the-shoulder account of the many strange and sensational events that surrounded LaVey and his thousands of followers as they were ushered in a new era of indulgence and carnality.

The Church of Satan: A History of the World's Most Notorious Religion

History

World

Hells Kitchen Productions

The Secret Life of a Satanist steps behind the curtain with the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan.
What is contemporary Satanism, and why would one start a church dedicated to the Dark One? It wasn't a rebellion against an oppressive religious upbringing; it was Anton Szandor LaVey's disgust with most of humanity. Drawing from Jack London, H.L. Mencken, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marquis de Sade, George Bernard Shaw, John Milton, Benjamin Franklin, and a host of reprobates, with a large dose of alchemy and black magic, LaVey formulated a philosophy that deeply resonated with him.
LaVey did not worship Satan; he paid homage to the rebellious spirit of innovation, defiance, and self-reliance that the archetype embodied. His background as a musician, circus lion trainer, hypnotist, and police photographer is covered here. The author, who later became his paramour and mother to his only son, was allowed extraordinary access to documents concerning his life, testimonies from people who had known him for years, and, most importantly, anecdotes and fond memories from a man living out of his time.
After the original publication of this biography in 1990, LaVey and Blanche Barton fought through the Satanic Panic together, and guided the Church for another seven years. This revised edition adds a dozen new and never-before-seen images.

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton Szandor LaVey

Blanche Barton traces the roots of Anton LaVey's notorious religion to ancient Epicureanism and Middle Eastern traditions, through the medieval alchemists and Romantic poets, flavored by the decadence of the Hellfire Clubs and the courts of Europe, intertwined through the fin de siècle diabolists to reveal how modern Satanists express and explore this thoroughly contemporary philosophy. You will meet healthcare workers, creative artists, VR developers, scientific innovators, teachers, military personnel, and business leaders who have boldly made their pacts with Satan, reaping considerable rewards. Through Barton's intimate knowledge and extensive interviews with current Satanists, as well as her behind the black curtain access to the present High Priest and Priestess of the Church of Satan, this book provides an unprecedented glimpse into this shadowed, secretive world.

WE ARE SATANISTS: The History and Future of the Church of Satan

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

APERIENT PRESS

This book looks at the life of Anton LaVey, who has been called the most dangerous man in the world, a charlatan and an evil genius. This authorised biography reveals the full and unexpurgated life story of the mysterious and enigmatic founder of the Church of Satan. LaVey's controversial career has taken him from the sleazy world of fairgrounds and burlesque to world fame and society adulation as the foremost authority on Satanic philosophy, involving on the way close relationships with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and other Hollywood stars.

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorised Biography of Anton LaVey

Titan Books

The Fenris Wolf is a research journal focused on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study.\nThis issue contains material presented at the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference “Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis” (Merano, 2019). Presenters were Kadmus, Charlotte Rodgers, Kasper Opstrup, Elisabeth Punzi & Per Magnus Johansson, Hans-Peter Söder, Haukur Jonasson, Carlos Abler, Stephanie Moran & Anna Sebastian, Katy Bohinc, Tom Banger & Koshka, Simon Magus, Ugo Dossi, Siegfried de Rachewiltz, Katrina Makkouk, Vanessa Sinclair, Blanche Barton, and Carl Abrahamsson, presenting topics as diverse as Greek Paganism, spiritual evolution, Cosmism’s inherent longing to go into space, Hilda Doolittle, the power of myth, Christianity’s influence in medieval Pagan Iceland, hypno-mimesis and working with body, the esoteric methods of Ithell Colquhoun, poetry as magic, the aesthetics and methods of Austin Osman Spare, automatic drawing, Joseph Ennemoser, Ezra Pound’s occultism, the crusade against magical thinking, the roots of modern Satanism, and the relationship between Ezra Pound and his publisher James Laughlin.

The Fenris Wolf 11

Rodgers, Charlotte

Abrahamsson, Carl

Bohinc, Katy

Magus, Simon

de Rachewiltz, Siegfried

Banger, Tom

Opstrup, Kasper

Trapart Books

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