Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses

We all want to save our skins, but what are we saving them for? We tell fundies "Hands off" as we embrace our rights over our own sinful selves.

We lean even leftier than usual as we chart a path from demon sex to "hidden masters" to this oft-referenced but little understood religious perspective.

We play bingo to beat the worst of 90s Satanic Panic copaganda.

It's definitely not safe to get back in the water.

When it comes to Satan we're true believers, but what do our Satanist peers and antecedents really believe in, and why is so much of it so weird?

The forbidden fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.

Blasphemy: Is it a means to an end, or just a means to offend? We've got unspeakable opinions on Blasphe-Me and Blasphe-You, with Dex and Chalice.

The most bewitching witching hour, from Spectres to Satanisms to feminist revolutions.

While modern research digs at the roots of our evolutionary tree, the public's relationship with science is in danger of becoming dead wood. Aron Ra joins us for a discussion about ancient ancestors and modern misconceptions. 

Something Wicker this way comes, as we rekindle our interest the most heathenish of horror classics, 50 years after it scared the Hell into audiences.

Author Jack Legg is here to dig up all the dirt on the Satanic Panic in his own backyard with his new book "Digging Up Devils," the story of 80 human sacrifices that never happened.

On this episode: How can greed be a sin if it also makes the world go round? Ethicist John Paul Rollert joins us as we cash in our chips.

We're biting off more than we can chew with mythical Satanic cannibals past and present, and it's a mouthful.

Its time to correct some clerical errors with our comprehensive history of Sinister Ministers--fictional and factual.

Our favorite feminist fiend is back, as we uncover even more esoteric history revealing why Lilith always comes out on top.

We remember the infamous 1988 Geraldo Satanism special--and then drink to forget the infamous 1988 Geraldo Satanism special.

We've tested Testaments new and old, and so it came to pass that we delve into the most fundamentally American of all fundamentalist American religions and meet their really weird devil.

It's a buyer's market, but everything must go! Sidney Sin joins us for a who's who of who's sold their souls for fame, fortune, and malevolent musicality in human history.

Pazuzu, king of ancient wind demons and friend to children everywhere; but what made Pazuzu the most popular demon of his day, and what can his myth tell us about the nature of religion, morality, and storytelling? Digital Hammurabi's Megan Lewis explains.

Black Mass Appeal is developing a King James Aversion with this down and very dirty study of the absolute worst parts of the Bible.

Where do you go for face time with the Big S? To the library, of course.

We're making a Halloween house call to America's most famous haunted home to learn how the Amityville Horror conjured a new brand of American demonology. 

Atun-Shei Film's Andrew Rakich talks religion, race, and recreancy with his new Satanic historical thriller "The Sudbury Devil."

We are angel investors once again as we discuss the Satanic queer vibes of "Good Omens."

In the thrilling conclusion of our Black Miskatonic Appeal game: Who lives? Who dies? And who has to submit to Misty's community theater tryouts?