Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses

On this episode: We don't know the meaning of the word...but that's about to change.

Beelzebub has visited us with a very inconvenient virus, so while we reschedule our regular BMA, here's another little peak into Tabitha's private library to tide us all over. This time: Neo-Exorcist and Lego hair pioneer Bob Larson exercises our patience.

Just for our Patreon backers, Tabitha is cracking the books and cracking the mysteries of Stonehenge. What will we learn? Well, we're talking about Mike Warnke here, so probably not much--but hey, at least it's a party.

How did a tiny Southern California school end up giving an object lesson in the dangers of mass hysteria? To help us prosecute the McMartin Preschool case, we’re joined by lawyer and YouTuber Leonard French.

The podcast explores the origins of Satan and his supposed connections to older gods. The hosts discuss their broken button maker, gratitude for listeners and Patreon supporters, as well as the rise of Christian nationalism in Russia. They also delve into the role of Satan as an outsider and scapegoat, and the ancient legend of Baal. The podcast explores the history and arrival of the Israelites in Canaan, the story of the Exodus, and the struggle between Yahweh and other gods, including the possible existence of Yahweh's consort, Asherah.

In possibly our funniest episode ever, you say to-may-to and we say to-mah-to as we pick apart this pick-up manual for Satanists.

We're mad as Hell. No, really, literally this time.

We’re returning the world of Silver Screen Satanism in the days before major film censorship for some historical Hollywood heresies.   SHOW LINKS KSAT: San Antonio man wrongfully convicted in 1991 has charges dismissed in Satanic Panic case Australian Center for the Moving Image: Early Hollywood and the Hays Code Faust (1926) A landscape of nightmares, Roger Ebert (2005) Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History, Representation, and Nationhood, by Russell A. Berman (1993) Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles, by Inez Hedges (2005) The Magician (1926) American Film Institute Catalog: The Magician An Illustrated History of the Horror Film, by Carlos Clarens (1968) American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929, by John T. Soister et al (2012) The Magician, by Somerset Maugham (1908) The Black Cat (1934) Horror In the Movies, by Daniel Cohen (1982) American Film Institute Catalog: The Black Cat Classics Of the Horror Film, by William K Everson (1974) The History of Horror Cinema: The Black Cat, Ian Champion (2016)   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander’s Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area’s newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

By 1988, the Satanic Panic was starting to run out of steam, so Harvest House Publishing pushed a brand new absurdo-biography tell-all to stoke its engines. Is “Satan’s Underground” the worst Satanic Panic memoir ever published–or just the worst we’ve read for this show?