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Satan Wants Me
Author: Robert Irwin
Cover design: David Bird
Cover illustration: David Bird
The summer of '67 ... the summer of A Whiter Shade of Pale, Mellow Yellow and Sgt. Pepper ... Peter is into pathworking meditations, backwards causation, easy sex and drugs. There is acid on the streets and darker things are on the move...
Peter is an apprentice sorcerer who keeps a diary as part of an occult discipline, imposed upon him by the Black Light Lodge. That diary becomes both the story of the quest for a virgin to seduce and sacrifice and the chronicle of a demonic love. In the end he will no longer be able to distinguish a bad trip from a visitation from Hell.
Satan Wants Me is about the perils and deceits of self-revelation. It is a novel for anyone who wants to know what it was like to be young in the 1960s - if one was into amphetamines, weird sex and Devil-worship.
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RRP: £7.99
No. of pages: 320
Publication date: 14 June, 2007
Re-print date: unspecified
Catalogue/ISBN no: 978 1 903517 58 1
Rights sold: UK Paperback (Bloomsbury) Spain (Grijalbo Mondadori), France (Phebus) Netherlands (Atlas),Czech Republic (Volvox Globator),Russia(Symposium), Serbia (Utopia).
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