Beautiful, gifted, and dangerous, Maria Orsic stands at the crossroads of reason and madness—at the heart of the darkest obsessions ever woven into the ideology of a state. The Goddess of the Devil draws us into the shadowed world of the Third Reich’s obsession with the séances, secret laboratories, and forbidden knowledge, where myth and history dissolve into one another, and the truth proves darker than both.
Spanning four decades, the novel charts the perilous collision of mysticism, science, and ideology, as Maria Orsic rises from a hopeful medium of otherworldly consciousness to the unwilling figurehead of Nazi fringe science.
Provocative, atmospheric, and meticulously researched, The Goddess of The Devil is not just the story of a woman lost in the shadows of history, but a meditation on how ideals of purity, love, and honor can be twisted into engines of mass murder—and how the myths of the past still haunt our present.
Despite glowing praise from critics and nearly two million views of its teaser on YouTube, this novel has long struggled to find a publisher because of its incendiary subject matter. This edition marks its first publication.
"Expertly blending fact with fiction, Mart Sander’s novel demands your attention and respect." — Nick Clement, WeAreCult