Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses

That is not dead what can eternal lie, but what if it's just been lying for 150 episodes or so, how dead is it then?

What Satanic secrets do we dig up in this grave underaking?

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.

Satan springs eternal, but where did he spring from? Often we see older gods and religious figures compared to Satan and held up as his supposed origins, but is this accursed ancestry legit?

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...

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?

When it comes to Satanic aesthetics, you know the drill. But these days, we can't help but notice a lot of Satanic art and fashion is looking downright cute – even adorable. Artist Artetak joins us to discuss this brand of "Soft Satanism."   SHOW LINKS Artetak! Website , Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , TikTok , and YouTube The Daily Voice: NC Man Vowed To 'Shoot Everybody' At PA Middle School Wit...

When it comes to Deadly Sins, there's one option you can always count on for putting skin in the game. So why do conventional religions have so many intimate inhibitions about Lust, and what can we do with the baggage we've inherited from them?   SHOW LINKS Salon: "The Samuel Alito's Mom's Satanic Abortion Clinic" is a thing that exists now, Kelly McClure (2023) Cathechism of the Catholic Church,...

We're taking everybody's advice and going to Hell! For as long as people have believed in a fiery underworld, they've spread stories about how to get there from various locations around the world; so when you want to go somewhere just for the Hell of it, where should you set your sites?   SHOW LINKS The Telegraph: Young sacrifice belief in God on altar of Satanism, Gabriella Swerling (2023) The Li...

Of all the books in Lucifer's Library, one is overdue more often than all the others. But in the 50-plus years since the publication of the Satanic Bible, what has the world been saying about it, and how should these perspectives inform our own?   SHOW LINKS A Journey to Hell: My Visit to the Houston Satanic Temple's Art Show, Michael Hardy (2022) Marburg Journal of Religion: Diabolical Authority:...

We've heard of the banality of evil, but this wasn't really what we imagined.

We unleash the weirdest depths of Tabitha's Satanic Panic library.

The future is now – and also later, and arguably anytime we want it. With 2023 looming, we're looking ahead and behind at some of our biggest Satanic and personal ambitions, and wondering which of them we'll summon up for ourselves in the new year?   SHOW LINKS WAAYTV: Business Owner Defends Yule Festival   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's In...

Every Satanist knows that there are really only two magic words in life: Hail Satan. But where does this phrase come from, and why DO we say it so often?   SHOW LINKS WCIA: Satanic Temple adds 'Serpent of Genesis' to Capitol Rotunda holiday display, Danny Connolly, Cole Henke (2022) Latin for Satanists: How to hail Satan in proper Latin, Nahn Cerwyam (2019) Eccentric Tales: In Verse: The Monk of C...

"It's my time now," Satan declares in the 1997 horror/drama Hollywood hit The Devil's Advocate , starring Al Pacino as the original boss from Hell. Now, at the film's 25th anniversary, has his time passed -– or has this become a truly timeless work?   SHOW LINKS LiveScience: Why Does the Devil Have Horns & Hooves?, Tom Metcalfe (2022) Publisher's Weekly: What I Learned From Bestselling Author Andr...

Pride comes before the fall -- and since it's already November, that means we're already late! But as Modern Satanists, what does pride, in all of its myriad forms, mean to us, and how can we celebrate it most meaningfully?   SHOW LINKS Simone's "Creepy Bay Area" streaming special Awful Announcing: The danger of Kyrie Irving's flat-Eartherism was ignored by the media in 2017, Velodus (2022) Online...

For as long as humans have believed in mysticism we've been eager to know what the future holds, but modern religions are always hot to deal fortune telling to the devil. To help us learn more about why everyone is so afraid of making a psychic connection, we're joined by Shiva Honey.   SHOW LINKS Shiva Honey's Serpentinae website and shop, Instagram , and Facebook York Dispatch: No One Wants Sata...

We're created some monsters -- or so they say. Just in time for Halloween, we're going to decrypt the Satanic legend-making over American cryptids, with the help of Karen and Blake from the long-running skeptics' podcast, MonsterTalk.   SHOW LINKS MonsterTalk: website , Twitter , and Facebook The Conversation: The monster festival – a pilgrimage to small town America, Joe Laycock (2018) Skinwalker...