The Satanic Witch | Anton Szandor LaVey

Before “influence” became a seminar racket and “personal branding” became the consolation prize of the spiritually unemployed, Anton LaVey wrote The Satanic Witch: a manual of lesser magic for those who understand that charm, fear, sex, costume, voice, timing, and atmosphere are not ornaments of power, but power itself. Drawing on his years among carnivals, burlesque houses, police departments, night people, marks, hustlers, and human oddities, LaVey strips persuasion of its church clothes and presents it as practical sorcery for a world of appetites.

This is not feminism, anti-feminism, self-help, or occult daycare. It is a cold-blooded study of leverage: how people see, desire, obey, resist, and surrender. The expanded second edition includes a new introduction by High Priestess Peggy Nadramia and an afterword by Blanche Barton, situating LaVey’s most wickedly practical book within the living tradition of the Church of Satan. A book for witches who prefer results to incense.