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Horns in the air! Case takes us to a veritable witches' sabbat of obsession with satanic themes in late twentieth century culture. His well-researched work encompasses everything from the growth of modern nihilistic philosophy to the horror gimmicks of 1970s toys. Get ready to break out your Black Sabbath album, rewatch Rosemary's Baby and see contemporary culture in its darkest hues. You're in for a hell of a ride. --W. Scott Poole, historian and author of Satan in America and Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror

George Case has assembled, contextualized and made clear more disparate occult references and examples across multiple disciplines than has been proposed in any other book on the subject thus far. What's more, he brings back to the modern world the press reactions of the day, making for a lively read that takes us right back to the '60s and '70s. Case leaves no stone unturned, beginning with the Beatles and the Stones, but including less discussed examples of occultism and shock in rock from the likes of Graham Bond, Alice Cooper and the Blue Oyster Cult. All told, Here's to My Sweet Satan becomes a swift-moving read that re-conjures dozens -- if not into the low hundreds -- of key story lines linking pop culture to the Satanic, that you think you knew, but now realize, you never knew this richly and now gotta know more. --Martin Popoff, author of Who Invented Heavy Metal and The Big Book of Hair Metal

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George Case is a writer on ideas and popular culture, and an acknowledged authority on the band Led Zeppelin. He is the author of Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man, Out of Our Heads: Rock n' Roll Before the Drugs Wore Off, Led Zeppelin FAQ, Calling Dr. Strangelove, and Arcadia Borealis: Childhood and Youth in Northern Ontario. Case has also contributed several articles to the social science journal Skeptic.

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