A review by holgerhaase
The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey by Anton Szandor LaVey, Blanche Barton

4.0

The first half of the book is the authorised biography of Anton LaVey; the second half an introduction into his - surprisingly sane and often common sensical - belief system. When I read LaVey's Satanic Bible I was surprised how much of it appeared to be a precursor to all those self help books that are now stocked up in every bookstore and seem to have copied abundantly from him (with the ideas of "psychic vampires", visualisation etc). This biography is quite clearly biased and at times too gushing but still a very interesting overview over one of the 20th century's most intriguing counter cultural characters.