Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor Lavey, Founder of the Church of Satan by Brod, Doug
Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor Lavey, Founder of the Church of Satan by Brod, Doug

Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor Lavey, Founder of the Church of Satan

A provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITH A...
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Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor Lavey, Founder of the Church of Satan by Brod, Doug

Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor Lavey, Founder of the Church of Satan

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Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor Lavey, Founder of the Church of Satan by Brod, Doug

Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor Lavey, Founder of the Church of Satan

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Author: Doug Brod
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITH A TAIL chronicles a time when Americans welcomed a macabre showman into their living rooms via TheTonight Show, before a ginned-up hysteria known as the Satanic Panic would put a target on his shiny, shaven head.

When Anton LaVey burst onto the San Francisco scene right before the Summer of Love, he parlayed his eerie obsessions into a philosophy and lifestyle that capitalized on a New Age rage. With his signature cape, horn-studded hood, and Ming the Merciless beard, LaVey was a media-savvy provocateur who took what he did seriously, but was always in on the joke.

From a spooky old house on an otherwise unremarkable street, he founded the Church of Satan, where young women squirmed nude on the mantel of his ritual chamber as he delivered a doctrine of self-deification and indulgence that combined the writings of Ayn Rand, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aleister Crowley with the pulpy fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

Later, his bestselling book The Satanic Bible (still in print since 1969) struck an ominous chord with both the hip and the alienated--the fringe dwellers who were goth before there were goths. But LaVey's influence could be felt far beyond his flock, namely in the nightmarish and supernatural entertainment that dominated pop culture in the 1970s and continues to make an impact today.

He was a musical prodigy who attracted a cluster of stars into his orbit, including Jayne Mansfield and Sammy Davis Jr. But living like a real-life Gomez Addams, complete with a full-grown pet lion, came at an awful price.

Deeply researched and featuring dozens of new interviews, as well as recently unearthed personal correspondence and church records, BORN WITH A TAIL: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor LaVey, Founder of the Church of Satan separates the facts from the fabrications of this uniquely American character's extraordinary life.


Author: Doug Brod
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Size: 9.25h x 6.25w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780306833311

About the Author

DOUG BROD is the former editor in chief of SPIN and TV Guide magazines and the author of They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll (Hachette). He has also been an editor at Entertainment Weekly and Condé Nast and has written for The New York Times, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, and Fangoria. A native New Yorker, he lives with his family in Toronto, where he is an editor at the Toronto Star.


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