Black Magic: A Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist

"A painstaking researcher, a superb writer, a careful technician, and a master of horror." -The New Yorker“In the large room of a house in a certain quiet city in Flanders, a man was gilding a devil. The chamber looked on to the quadrangle round which the house was built; and the sun, just overhead, blazed on the vine leaves clinging to the brick and sent a reflected glow into the sombre spaces of the room. The devil, rudely cut out of wood, rested by his three tails and his curled-back horns against the wall, and the man sat before him on a low stool. On the table in front of the open window stood a row of knights in fantastic armour, roughly modelled in clay; beside them was a pile of vellum sheets covered with drawings in brown and green. By the door a figure of St. Michael leant against a chair, and round his feet were painted glasses of every colour and form. On the whitewashed wall hung a winged picture representing martyrdom; its vivid hues were the most brilliant thing in the room. The man was dressed in brown; he had a long dark face and straight dull hair; from the roll of gold leaf on his knee he carefully and slowly gilded the devil.”A fascinating occult literature classic, Marjorie Bowen's Black Magic has the story of rise and fall of Anti-Christ movement deftly filled with living images of corrupted nuns, satanic rituals, spells, demons, intensely unscrupulous church, violent thunderstorms, love triangles, witches, ghosts, medieval opulence, violence, comets, and much more. Her Heroes face the trial of marching on Rome to fight the devil-driven pope to save the Christianity and the people who have their faith on Christ.

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