Books like The darkness among us by William C. Viser

Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible presents a modern, rationalized form of Satanism, challenging Christian doctrine and offering a philosophy centered on self‑indulgence, ritual, and personal autonomy.

William Styron’s memoir recounts his 1985 struggle with severe depression, hospitalization, and recovery, offering an honest portrait of living with mental illness.

Ashlyn Darrow in Budapest seeks help from supernatural men—especially the dangerous Maddox—but their instant hunger leads to a passionate love that could destroy them both.

Satanism has an aspect of holiness distinct from that of Beelzebub. There is no singular entity but it functions rather like a descended master which believers can embody. Once inertiae for evil acts: execution, rape or torture; reach a climax, poltergeist manifest can occur. Druid wood magic may be directly linked. Avoid this temptation. Even if you feel someone may deserve the worst, "thou shall not place thorns before the path of your enemies, lest the whole world become filled with thorns." Though many have rejected the forceful and anomalous Jesus, we need not be powerless with the true Christ Yeshua bin Yosef, son of Josef and bloodline of Jesse the heroe savior and true slayer of Goliath. This book purposefully tests the weak or those who succumb to the "light in the darkness" as is described in the Emerald Tablets of Akhenaton. The dark light is the meeting point between the reciprocal inertia of witchcraft and Bemelo (beelzebub). One finds himself weaker than the other and makes what is called a 6-3 to continue the hedonist intentions and lewd agenda in respectively, for those who follow, the overlying evil agenda. - Guy Roeslyn refer to Satan by author Montgomery for a primer on Satanic doctrine and an expose on Satan's diabolical mission.

447 pages : 24 cm

Canadian edition

Darkest at Dawn follows Juliette, an animal rights activist who frees an immortal Carpathian named Riordan De La Cruz, and Colby Jansen, a rancher who must protect her family from the same enigmatic vampire.

Synopsis: Mutilated animals. Defaced tombstones. Sexual abuse in daycare centers. Is America threatened by a satanic conspiracy? In this book, Robert D. Hicks exposes law enforcement's obsessive preoccupation with Satanism as a model for criminal behavior. While satanic belief has played a part in crimes ranging from petty vandalism to serial murders, Hicks avows that there is no substantial evidence for the existence of a nationwide satanic crime continuum. Hicks points out that the satanic criminal model is expedient largely due to its simplicity and economy, reducing to simple formulas such complex problems as drug abuse, teen suicide, and sexual molestation. His research utilizes a unique blend of law-enforcement methodology, anthropology, folklore, history, sociology, psychology and psychiatry. He attributes the cult conspiracy theory to beliefs fueled by Christian fundamentalist sects and to the ungovernable mechanisms of rumor-panics, subversive mythology, and urban legend. In Pursuit of Satan documents examples of rumor-panics in which the police have fomented fear by attributing crimes to Satanists, indulging in sheer speculation and promulgating misinformation through the sensationalist news media. Hicks examines the construction of the satanic ideology among law enforcement officials, focusing on the exploitation of Satanism as a new scapegoat for public fears and addressing the phenomenon of credulity among police forces and allied professionals in social work, psychiatry, and psychology.

When six college friends play a Ouija board at a party, they summon a restless spirit who lures them to a mountain hideaway with promises of hidden treasure, but the danger that awaits may be far deadlier than they imagined.

"The success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series sparked a spirited backlash from America's Christian fundamentalists. Potter may be fiction, these commentators argued, but his occultist practices are dangerous and real - and tempting to impressionable young minds." "This controversy, says Bill Ellis, is only the most recent cases of organized religion's concern that the occult may be corrupting our youth. But Potter fans aren't sacrificing Christianity for the dark arts as some religious leaders fear. The attraction of witchcraft and magic among children is a tradition that is hundreds of years old - and not likely to disappear. In fact, the occult has always functioned to empower people in traditionally less powerful social strata: children, women, lower classes. At a time when most worshippers could not read the Bible or understand a church ceremony, paganism offered spiritual fulfillment. When women could not vote or train for a vocation, witchcraft gave them access to knowledge and medicine." "Witchcraft and magic are still very much a part of Anglo-American culture. In Lucifer Ascending, Ellis looks at modern practices that are universally defined as occult, such as carrying a rabbit's foot for good luck or using a Ouija board to contact the dead as well as more esoteric traditions such as the use of "black bibles." The function of this "vernacular occultism" in society, Ellis argues, is not based on an irrational belief in Satan, nor is witchcraft an underground religion that opposes Christianity. Lucifer Ascending examines the occult not as an alternative to religion but rather as a means for ordinary people to participate directly in the mythic realm."--Jacket.

Young duchess Chrysantha, who hides her ambition behind a charming façade, confronts a family crisis when her sister marries the Shadow King and an unexpected heir threatens her inheritance.