Recommended Reading

Reading is a truly Satanic activity. Prose, poetry and plays have inspired our thoughts, encouraged our imaginations and deepened our empathy. These works have particularly inspired us as they have also informed and inspired our Satanism.

• Paradise Lost by John Milton

Notable Works by ‘The Romantic Satanists’ And Their Descendants

• Cain: A Mystery by George Gordon Byron
• Prometheus Unbound, Queen Mab and The Revolt of Islam all by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Consuelo by George Sand
• Inno A Satana (Hymn to Satan) by Giosuè Carducci
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
• Hvem är du Lucifer (Who Are You Lucifer?) by Ernst Hellborg
• La Sorcière (The Witch) by Jules Michelet
• La Révolte des Anges (The Revolt of the Angels) by Anatole France

Notable Political Works That Utilised The Miltonic Satan

• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin
• God and The State by Mikhail Bakunin
• Concerning Justice in the Revolution and in the Church by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• The Sorceries and Scandals of Satan by Henry M. Tichenor

Academic Papers/Books

• The Devil Is Red: Socialist Satanism in the Nineteenth Century by Per Faxneld
• Romantic Satanism and the Rise of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry by Adriana Craciun
• The Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron, and the Adversary by Fred Parker
• The Promethean Politics of Milton, Blake, and Shelley by Linda M Lewis
• Satanic Feminism – Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth Century Culture by Per Faxneld
• The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost: Reading against the Grain by Jonathon Sears
• Romantic Satanism – myth and the historical moment in Blake, Shelley, and Byron by Peter A. Schock
• Introduction to Romantic Satanism by Michael Osiris Snuffin
• The “Baphomet” of Eliphas Lévi: Its Meaning and Historical Context by Julian Strube