No states of grace here, instead Miranda Corcoran has the haunting history of Americana from coast to coast, including some contributions from our Bay Area Satanists. We can't guarantee the cover isn't haunted in itself, so peruse with caution. blackmassappeal.com/2024/11/13/b...

On our brand new episode: It's another day with you and me and Paradise. blackmassappeal.com/2024/11/13/b...

Like many anti-Satanist tropes, the myth of host desecration has roots in antisemitism...but we're sure the fucking Catholics don't know a thing about that. blackmassappeal.com/2024/10/29/e...

Well at least these all look tasteful... blackmassappeal.com/2024/10/29/e...

On our brand new episode: We say to Hell with fundy Halloween Hell Houses. blackmassappeal.com/2024/10/29/e...

We will buy every person in America a sandwich for every one of these that actually happened--assholes included. blackmassappeal.com/2024/10/16/b...

Our new and shocking Halloween season show disinters some Satanic perspectives on Mary Shelley's modern Mephistophelean marvel, "Frankenstein." blackmassappeal.com/2024/10/16/b...

On tomorrow's brand new episode....this piece available at Crytptocurium, btw. Nothing to do with the podcast, they're just awesome. www.cryptocurium.net/shop/p/cerea...

Thrash has invited readers to interpret what the title "Rainbow Black" means for themselves. Probably it did not refer to this apocalyptic East Bay rainbow...but who's to say? blackmassappeal.com/2024/10/01/b...

"Anyone who feels strongly about the separation of church should remind Reynolds that neither the state of Iowa nor the United States has an official religion, that all religions are equally welcome, and that the state capitol building is not a church." www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/09/20/d...

Pictured: The abyss finally, actually staring into you. www.terrorvault.com

It was a different time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFm_...

Yes, "Rainbow Black" is available through Books Are Magic, and also any number of other places, but particularly through Books Are Magic, as Maggie herself notes. www.booksaremagic.net/item/Vus7kAU...

On our brand new episode of Black Mass Appeal: We recolor our perspectives on Maggie Thrash's new book "Rainbow Black," a queer Satanic Panic parable for readers on every spectrum. blackmassappeal.com/2024/10/01/b...

Yes, some people do cite that weird ass Proverbs list as the "deadly sins"--some asserting that the Proverbial list somehow inspired the standard one, or else just that it's a preferable listing compared to the heathen extra-scriptural Catholic version... blackmassappeal.com/2024/09/18/b...

Tuesday: The ringing of the bell commands you.

On our brand new episode of Black Mass Appeal: What happens when Satanic Panic fundies get a hold of old Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible? Well, it's sure not good news... blackmassappeal.com/2024/09/18/b...

Pulp horror of the early 20th century was likewise full or lurid fantasies about wicked cults, often laced with racist commentary. Hal Lindsey and Bob Larson types would later launder this imagery into fundy terms. (Art by John Coulthart, johncoulthart.com) blackmassappeal.com/2024/09/03/b...

Images of lurid "cult" sacrificial rites with, ah, FAIRLY obvious psychosexual overtones were all over pulp media of the early 20th century. I guess we can't say for sure if these images and stories fertilized delusions of the Cult Scare, but, well, just look. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/09/04/b...

At least there's no population sign. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/09/04/b...

It seems the legends were true. ...about the beans, that is, not about the Mothman. Maybe those legends are true also, we don't really have a dog in that fight. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/09/04/b...

A very unkind thing to say about that dog. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/09/04/b...

Well those bangs are clearly an act of abuse. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/09/04/b...

Pour a nice tall glass of Flavor-Aid and get ready for some devilish deprogramming, as we go in search of some honest-to-badness Satanic cults. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/09/04/b...

You can't put those goddamn things just anywhere. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/20/b...

Chills. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/20/b...

"Oh no, I guess I'm trapped forever in this lower plane of sensual pleasures, how disappointing for my soul, just...super bummer." www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/20/b...

Here's what the front side of that pulpit looks like, btw--but why would you ever be looking at the front? www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/20/b...

Round 2. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/20/b...

Round 1. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/20/b...

On our brand new episode of Black Mass Appeal: We expose the rock-hard foundation of our Modern Satanic perspective, the one, the only–Hot Satan. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/20/b...

But he slept like an angel. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/06/b...

"Folkish Heathens state that the religion should be restricted to those of northern European heritage; a religion for white people only." Because if there's one thing pagan Norseman were known for, it was their welcoming attitude toward all Europeans. www.brandeis.edu/now/2022/may...

Leviticus does seem to include a ban on tattoos, but as usual the faithful are of two minds about whether this really applies to them or not. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/06/b...

#MarkOfTheEastBay www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/06/b...

On our brand new episode of Black Mass Appeal: All of us want to save our skins, but what are we saving them for? We tell fundies “Hands off” and embrace ownership of our own sinful selves. www.satanicbayarea.com/2024/08/06/b...

On tomorrow's brand new episode...

In Thelema, a seventh degree initiate ("Adeptus Exemptus") either "becomes a Brother of the Left Hand Path or, "is stripped of all his attainments and of himself as well, even of his Holy Guardian Angel." Which is a little over our heads, but sounds intense. blackmassappeal.com/2024/07/23/b...

We might be making too much of this, but it IS a left hand. blackmassappeal.com/2024/07/23/b...

As mentioned, tantra is not really the fuckfest most of us would assume...but tantric sex really is a thing. And tantra is not really "black magic"...but its mingling of elements like sex and alcohol seem unsavory to some. blackmassappeal.com/2024/07/23/b...

Doesn't look very Satanic to me, but the more they run their mouths the more I come around on it. blackmassappeal.com/2024/07/23/b...

Of course, while Blavatsky fretted a lot about "sorcery," she was also a big fan of Lucifer and even named her periodical after him, because people contain multitudes. blackmassappeal.com/2024/07/23/b...

On our brand new episode of Black Mass Appeal: We lean leftier than usual as we chart a path from demon sex to “hidden masters” to an oft-referenced but little understood religious perspective. blackmassappeal.com/2024/07/23/b...

On tomorrow's brand new episode...

Hilariously, Pryor and his hair gave up preaching and went back to being a witch. Less hilariously, this was around the same time he was arrested for spousal abuse. And then he was run over by a truck in 2009, which we're going to call neutral. blackmassappeal.com/2024/07/09/b...