Satans High Priest by Judith SpencerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A truly disturbing book. The murder/cults/aliens show Last Podcast on the Left flags their most gruesome content as Gold Star territory, and this story repeatedly and regularly goes farther than anything I've heard them touch. There are major issues with the sources Judith Spencer relied on for this narrative, but if anything it's a relief to have reason to doubt it. This story must have been gasoline on the fire of the Satanic Panic. Regardless of its truth or untruth, it tells a horrific story about the most outrageous abuse being inflicted down through a generation, and of a secret society formed around fear, shame, and rage.
What Spencer does masterfully is capture how human true evil can be. The whole book is in painfully down-to-earth language, so it's all too easy to believe. Don't expect the supernatural—people can be so much worse.
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