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Devil`s Dominion -- The Complete Story of Hell and Satanism in the Modern World
Satan and his malevolent kingdom have consistently fascinated Western man. In this companion piece to his successful A Natural History of the Vampire, Anthony Masters has written a compendium of information, factual and fantastic, about the Devil and his works.
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First published January 1, 1978
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Anthony Masters
260 books12 followersAnthony Masters was a writer, educator and humanitarian of exceptional gifts and prodigious energy. He was, in the parlance of his spiritual ancestors, the ancient mariners, that rare voyager "as gracious as a trade wind and as dependable as an anchor".
He leaves 11 works of adult fiction – notably, Conquering Heroes (1969), Red Ice (1986, with Nicholas Barker), The Men (1997), The Good and Faithful Servant (1999) and Lifers (2001) – and was in the process of completing another, Dark Bridges, which he thought would be his best. Many of these works carry deep insights into social problems that he gained, over four decades, by helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other ethnic minorities.
His non-fiction output was typically eclectic. It ranged from the biographies of such diverse personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled, 1972), Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin: the father of anarchism, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy Astor: a life, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalised by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the life of Maxwell Knight, 1984), to a history of the notorious asylum Bedlam (Bedlam, 1977).
He leaves 11 works of adult fiction – notably, Conquering Heroes (1969), Red Ice (1986, with Nicholas Barker), The Men (1997), The Good and Faithful Servant (1999) and Lifers (2001) – and was in the process of completing another, Dark Bridges, which he thought would be his best. Many of these works carry deep insights into social problems that he gained, over four decades, by helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other ethnic minorities.
His non-fiction output was typically eclectic. It ranged from the biographies of such diverse personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled, 1972), Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin: the father of anarchism, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy Astor: a life, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalised by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the life of Maxwell Knight, 1984), to a history of the notorious asylum Bedlam (Bedlam, 1977).
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November 15, 2018
Well that was really a surprisingly well done 8th grade independent study!
Oh, this was written by a grown man?
Well, for a first attempt at a hobby novel it's really not that bad.
Oh, he's a prolific author of the worst tabloid pulp fiction? ahhhh, that makes some sense.
Just terrible. A very stilted, all-over-the-place writing style that basically clipped quotes and references from the library's "occult" section and put them all together with little bridging paragraphs written after the fact.
Oh, this was written by a grown man?
Well, for a first attempt at a hobby novel it's really not that bad.
Oh, he's a prolific author of the worst tabloid pulp fiction? ahhhh, that makes some sense.
Just terrible. A very stilted, all-over-the-place writing style that basically clipped quotes and references from the library's "occult" section and put them all together with little bridging paragraphs written after the fact.
June 6, 2013
I'm giving this three stars purely on the virtue of this book being an adequate secondary source for primary source materials. That being said, i had difficulty with this book. The tone is pschitzophrenic, leading to an initial confusion on how to treat the material. While the author is at times skeptical of some older events, anything in the 18th century onward he seems. To treat as fact. A strange confluence skepticism and pure theological thinking prevades. File this work under the "satanic panic" subcategory.
September 23, 2012
Not exhaustive, but a very entertaining read. Doesn't seem to have been penned by a Christian writer but has dire warnings of the occult, Satanic practices, and the inefficiency of churches to convey a strong message.
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