Book: Tell My Horse, Zora Neale Hurston
This account of Carribbean voodoo explores what happens when religion adapts to violence, persecution, and exploitation.
Book: The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
Feminist folklore explores the basic elements of fairy tale storytelling: horror, gothicism, taboo, and the place of women in storytelling.
Book: Satan’s Silence, Debbie Nathan
A firsthand accounts of the Satanic Panic and its roots in societal anxiety, sexual shame, cultural xenophobia, and religious zeal.
Book: Remembering Satan, Lawrence Wright
There was no cult, and the crimes never happened, but Paul Ingram confessed anyway. Because he “remembered” doing it all.
Book: Witches, Sluts, Feminists, Kristen Sollee
How the historical “witch” (and her associations with devilry) evolved into the modern “slut,” and the power of embracing those titles.
Book: The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
In response to junk science and superstition, cosmologist Carl Sagan created, if you’ll pardon the term, a bible for skepticism.
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