After Anton LaVey died in 1997, the administrative headquarters of his church was moved to New York City, where it...

The Order of Nine Angles, ONA, or O9A is a clandestine, extremist group of theistic Satanists that first gained notoriety...

Founded during the summer solstice of 1975 in Santa Barbara, California by Michael A. Aquino, the Temple of Set is...

Direct canonical references to demons and hell are difficult to obtain, as few appear in the conventional Biblical texts. Thus,...

Baphomet’s reputation as a symbol of the Devil was cemented by Eliphas Levi‘s famous cartoon. However, the idea of Baphomet...

The Marquis de Sade One has only to learn of the sordid life of the Marquis de Sade to debunk...

A woodcutting of accused witches being burned at the stake After the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity united the...

H.C. Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, better known as H.C. Agrippa, lectured at the University of Dole in Cologne,...

In 1980, psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his patient-turned-wife Michelle Smith wrote Michelle Remembers, an “autobiographical” account of Smith’s counseling related...

Anton Szandor LaVey, The Black Pope Born Howard Stanton Levey in Chicago, Illinois on April 11th, 1930, LaVey spent the...