''The Devil's Notebook'' is the fourth book by
Anton LaVey, published in 1992 by
Feral House
Feral House is an American book publisher founded in 1989 by Adam Parfrey and based in Port Townsend, Washington.
Early history
The company's first book was '' The Satanic Witch'' (1989; originally published in 1971 by Dodd, Mead & Company) by A ...
. It includes a foreword by
Adam Parfrey
Adam Parfrey (April 12, 1957 – May 10, 2018) was an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books, whose work in all three capacities frequently centered on unusual, extreme, or "forbidden" areas of knowledge. A 2010 ''Se ...
and design by
Sean Tejaratchi. The book contains forty-one essays in which LaVey provides commentary on such topics as
nonconformity,
occult
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fad
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Fads are objects or behaviors that achieve short- ...
dism,
Nazism
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,
terrorism
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,
cannibalism
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,
erotic
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politics
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, the “Goodguy badge”, demoralization and the construction of
artificial human companions. Included are instructions for the creation of what LaVey terms "total environments", or places of
magical evocation
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, where the enlightened may escape the deleterious effects of contemporary existence.
References
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1992 non-fiction books
English-language books
Essay collections
Works by Anton LaVey
Feral House books
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