Book: The Witches, Stacy Schiff
Certain ideas have always haunted America: fear of the devil, fear of outsiders, and most of all fear of invisible but sinister conspiracies.
Book: The Origin of Satan, Elaine Pagels
A primer on how and why ancient Jewish and Christian groups created Satan and who they used him against–then and now.
Book: Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
A story about how the mind of a child exercises the unruly but empowering essence of the ego–and by extension, how we can too.
Book: Good Omens, Pratchett & Gaiman
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman parody “The Omen,” the Cold War, the Bible, witch hunting, and Millennium apocalypse scares.
Book: The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
“Glory and praise to you, O Satan, in the heights of Heaven where you reigned and in the depths of Hell where you dream.”
Story: The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
Few things hold more awful or compelling power over people than tradition.
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