Satanic Alchemy: Atrocities of Gilles de Rais
Language: English
Published by Sun Vision Press, 2013
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The spectre of Gilles de Rais, the Satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. His obscene crimes and sinister aristocratic glamour reminds of a mediaeval Hannibal Lecter. Satanic Alchemy is a testament to the legend of Gilles de Rais and his status as history's first ever Devil-worshipping serial killer. With essays from some of the most fertile imaginations in writing, as well as a complete chronology and register of people and places in de Rais' life, this book is a rich evocation of the most intriguing figure in the annals of mass murder.
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- Title
- Satanic Alchemy: Atrocities of Gilles de Rais
- Author
- Candice Black
- Publisher
- Sun Vision Press
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0983884277
- ISBN 13
- 9780983884279
The juxtaposition of de Rais' obscene crimes and insidious aristocratic glamour lodges him in our minds as some kind of medieaval Hannibal Lecter, and he is indeed believed to be the inspiration behind Perrault's classic fairytale of the serial wife-killer Bluebeard.
SATANICe€ˆALCHEMY is a testament to the enduring legend of Gilles de Rais and his status in the popular imagination as history's first ever Devil-worshipping serial killer. With essays from some of the most fertile imaginations of recent centuries ― including J-K Huysmans, Georges Bataille and Valentine Penrose ― as well as a complete chronology and register of people and places in de Rais' brief but cataclysmic existence, this book is a rich evocation of the perversely seductive aura, the satanic allure of the most intriguing figure in the annals of mass murder.
Parts of this book previously appeared in Dark Star (Creation Books, 2005).
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