Masks of Satan : Demonic History Christopher Nugent [ Vatican , Satanic Panic ]
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Scarce First American edition of the Masks of Satan influential “demonic” history of purported Satanic practices across time representative of popular thinking during the Satanic Panic with forward by Vatican backed cult expert.
Nugent, Christopher. Gesy, Rev. Lawrence J. Masks of Satan : The Demonic in History. Christian Classics : Westminster, Maryland. 1989. First American Edition.
Originally published in London in 1983, Masks of Satan : The Demonic in History represents Dr. Christopher Nugent writing an only semi-secular treatment on the subject. An avowed Catholic and believer in divine and diabolic intervention — “it is no ghost story” — Nugent traces the stories of Gilles de Rais, Elizabeth Bathory, Aleister Crowley, and Adolph Hitler using them as contrasting case studies for the lives and experiences of mystic saints like John of the Cross.
This, the first and only American edition of 1989, was published by Christian Classics Inc. in Westminster, Maryland not far from the Baltimore base of Rev. Lawrence J Gesy, who provided the forward, member of the Archdioceses of Baltimore and the Vatican Commission on Cults, and author of such books as “Today’s Destructive Cults and Movements”.
Calling this a “masterpiece of historical research” , Gesy says that the book has become “a source of consolation and affirmation of my ministry” and a “source in my library”. This suggests Masks of Satan guided Gesy’s late 1980s and early 1990s warnings about demonic influences preying on the American public as one of the hold outs of the Satanic Panic. Gesy was placed on medical leave in 2003 and died in retirement in 2017.
8vo, 216pp, yellow glossy wraps. Vertical crease through center of front wrap, slight curl toward fore edge. Lower corners bumped. Pages clean. Very good.
If you liked this book, you might also like this first edition of Montague Summers’ Geography of Witchcraft or this scarce English translation of the purported satanic priest Abbe Boullan
