In 1891, French popular author JK Huysmans scandalized the public with his novel La-Bas, a sultry and sleazy story surveying sex, shame, and Satanism. What inspired him to delve into such outrageous material -- and why did so many people take him seriously?
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- Satanists convince Delaware County, Pennsylvania school district to alter dress code)
- La-Bas, by Joris K. Huysmans)
- JSTOR Daily: Satanism and Magic in the Age of the Moulin Rouge)
- The New Yorker: What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans)
- The Paris Review: Divine Ordure)
- Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism, by Gareth Medway)
- Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism, by Ruben van Luijk)
- Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture, by Per Faxneld)
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