«Cornerstone», Volume 21, number 98, «Selling Satan,» Jon Trott & Mike Hertenstein, 1992. This gets *highest* recommendation. From a Christian magazine which does a great job of discrediting Mike Warnke's accounts mentioned in «The Satan Seller» and elsewhere

«Do What You Will» by Geoffry Ashe A history of philosophers & groups who use this thelemic motto. Especially nice history of the «Hellfire Clubs»

«Satanism: The Seduction of America's Youth», Bob Larson, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989. The facts on the *conspiracy* now coming to a lonely town near you!!! (You're reading the FAQ, so it's already here!)

«Paradise Lost» by John Milton. An epic poem telling the tale of Lucifer from when he is thrown out of heaven, to the Fall of Adam and Eve. It makes Lucifer into a heroic figure, whilst God is made out to be a little vague and weak.

«The Divine Comedy» by Dante. Another epic poem in three parts (Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio) covering the author's pilgrimage through them.

«The Prince of Darkness» by Jeffrey Burton Russell, Cornell University Press, 1988. Historian's work on the history of Satan from earliest history through the twentieth century. A summary of a four-book series (The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, and Mephistopheles, by the same author) which may be too much reading for casual interest.

«The Old Enemy» by Neil Forsyth, Princeton University Press, 1987. Another history of Satan focusing on the Middle East and early Christianity.

«La-Bas (Down There)» by J. K. Huysmans (1891?) translated by Keene Wallace. Fiction novel of the occult and the black mass in late nineteenth century Paris. H. P. Lovecraft, collected works. Classic horror fiction that has served as inspiration for many Satanists. Frederick Neitzsche, various works Neitzschean philosophies form the core of Satanism. Much of the «Satanic Bible» owes its philosophical and literary roots to works such as.