COME TAKE A GUIDED TOUR OF LUCIFER’S HOUSE Theology student Hudson has just won the lottery, but not just any lottery—Satan’s lottery. Only eleven people in all of human history have been so honored since Lucifer’s fall from Heaven in 5318 B.C. All Hudson need do is say “yes,” and he will receive an all-expenses-paid tour of Hell, and his tour-guide is the damned soul of H.P. Lovecraft, the greatest horror writer of all time… And into the Abyss, Hudson ventures, to witness carnal pleasures that boggle the mind and horrors piled upon horrors within the smoking, screaming metropolis that is now Lucifer’s domain. But will Hudson make the ultimate choice and disavow his salvation to become an aristocrat in Hell? A house with atrocities soaked in its walls, a Christian church perverted into a chapel of abomination, infant corpses exhumed for a diabolic rite... These ingredients are only the beginning of Edward Lee’s latest excursion into hardcore occult horror. LUCIFER’S LOTTERY takes the reader on a macabre and harrowing trek of unspeakable evil, devilish intrigue, demented eroticism, and ends in the very mansion of Satan himself...

Unlike humans, Lucifer is ineligible for redemption and therefore doomed to eternal hell. Playing on God's sense of fairness, Lucifer appeals to the Archangel Michael for a chance to redeem himself by turning a person he corrupted into a paragon of virtue. Against his own wishes, Michael makes the deal. However, since moral perfection is impossible for anyone, he decrees that Lucifer must attain redemption by seeing that his subject does not break nine of the Ten Commandments politically. The agreement is struck and the target of Lucifer's effort will be the corrupt, wealthy governor of Kentucky, who is gearing up for reelection and is hopelessly paranoid about his opponents. Besides engaging in the usual local corruption, the "Guv" worms his way into a deal to bring riverboat gambling to the state. Lucifer dispatches an imp disguised as a political consultant to infiltrate the campaign and influence the governor toward political righteousness. The imp and the governor's spokeswoman share a romantic attraction, which is also resolved in this rollicking, metaphysical muckraking of Kentucky politics.

The 1st in the Dracomantium Collection, featuring 3 codices in 1 tome:* 6. Dracomeroth {Codex Satani}: Written as a result of study and experimentation in The Occult, combining various traditions and "Satanizing" them, truly giving The Devil His due. The rites written therein are a result of both meditation & the application of Greater & Lesser Magical principles which have proven by results to work. Includes The Black Book of Shadows.* 6. The Devil's Scroll {Codex Diaboli}: A collection of misanthropic, Satanically-philosophical essays providing insights into human motivations, social commentary, as well as counter-culture thought.* 6. Satanic Serenades {Codex Noctum}: Infernal Reflections upon both vital existence and mythology, written in a beautiful, sometimes terrifying polemical, imaginative Gothic style, inspiring contemplation & darkest entertainment for those who resonate to The Satanic perspective, and appreciate the sinister aesthetic.Includes previous covers.

"Never believe anything you are told, by anyone, particularly when they tell you that you must believe it. Always think for yourselves and make your own decisions. Don't let anyone tell you what to think, how to think or what to believe."

Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

"Throughout history, the religious imagination has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed-or, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Religious belief and mandate affect how our bodies are used in ritual practice, as well as how we use them to identify and marginalize threatening religious Others. This book examines how horror culture treats religious bodies that have stepped (or been pushed) out of their 'proper' place. Unlike most books on religion and horror, This book explores the dark spaces where sex, sexual representation, and the sexual body come together with religious belief and scary stories. Because these intersections of sex, horror, and the religious imagination force us to question the nature of consensus reality, supernatural horror, especially as it concerns the body, often shows us the religious imagination at work in real time. It is important to note that the discussion in this book is not limited either to horror cinema or to popular fiction, but considers a wide range of material, including literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, participative culture, and aspects of real-world religious fear. It is less concerned with horror as a genre (which is mainly a function of marketing) and more with the horror mode, a way of storytelling that finds expression across a number of genres, a variety of media, and even blurs the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. This expanded focus not only deepens the pool of potential examples, but invites a much broader readership in for a swim"--

Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of the biblical text or the traditions of religion, but also as they proliferate into popular culture. This exploration emerges from what has long been present in horror: an engagement with the same questions that animate religious thought – questions about the nature of the divine, humanity's place in the universe, the distribution of justice, and what it means to live a good life, among many others. Such exploration often involves a theological conversation. Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination pursues questions regarding non-physical realities, spaces where both divinity and horror dwell. Through an exploration of theology and horror, the contributors explore how questions of spirituality, divinity, and religious structures are raised, complicated, and even sometimes answered (at least partially) by works of horror.

Etherius is the angel that has been guarding the gates to the entrance of Eden for an eternity. Having lost all sense of himself within this eternal realm, he sets forth to discover the meaning of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil alongside his once best and long forgotten friend, Lucifer, and Empyria, a lost love shrouded in the mystery of his heart. Traveling between Heaven, Hell, and Earth, Etherius uncovers the meaning of good and evil and its relation to humanity, while being led to his own truth within the universe inside and outside of his mind. The goal of the mystical path is transformation. What this transformation is differs from one religion or tradition to another, but to change, to realize the self, to transcend the self, to achieve union of the personal self with the universal self, to experience eternity, the divine, God, are many of the purposes and goals of all mystical experience. As varied as the goal of mysticism is, so too the path to genuine experience. This book is one such path.

Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.