The spectre of Gilles de Rais, the Satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. Satanic Alchemy is a testament to the legend of Gilles de Rais and his status as history’s first ever Devil-worshipping serial killer.

Gilles de Rais is believed to be the inspiration behind Perrault’s classic fairy tale of the serial wife-killer Bluebeard.

With essays from some of the most fertile imaginations of recent centuries ― including J-K Huysmans, Georges Bataille and Valentine Penrose ― as well as a complete chronology and register of people and places in de Rais’ brief but cataclysmic existence, Satanic Alchemy is a rich evocation of the perversely seductive aura of the most intriguing figure in the annals of mass murder.

Contents

Sorcery in Poitou – J-K Huysmans (trans R J Dent)

The Bloody Countess – Valentine Penrose (trans Alex Trocchi)

Le Marechal De Retz – Sabine Baring-Gould

Gilles de Rais – Georges Bataille (Trans Richard Robinson)

Two Monsters Extraordinary – R L Masters

Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais – Margaret Murray

Book details:
Title: Satanic Alchemy
Subtitle: Atrocities of Gilles de Rais
Author(s): Various
Translator(s): Various
Publisher: Sun Vision Press; Reprint edition (3 Jan. 2013)
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN-10: 0983884277
ISBN-13: 978-0983884279
Dimensions: 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm
Purchase link (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0983884277/
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