Satanic Alchemy: Atrocities of Gilles De Rais - Softcover

 
9780983884279: Satanic Alchemy: Atrocities of Gilles De Rais
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0983884277 ISBN 13: 9780983884279
Verlag: Sun Vision Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The spectre of Gilles de Rais, satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. A fallen general, once the champion of Jeanne d'Arc, de Rais' riches and experimentations led him to the very gates of Hell.
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 ^ALCHEMY 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Candice Black was born in England and graduated from Warwick University. She specialises in Surrealist studies and history.

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Verlag
Sun Vision Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0983884277
ISBN 13 
9780983884279
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
214
Herausgeber
Black Candice
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