Here are twenty-one stories that will scare you to death; they are best read late at night, preferably while you’re alone. Try using a reading lamp that illuminates the page while throwing the rest of the room into shadows – shadows where anything could be hiding. Anything! Then, later, as you lie in the iron dark, waiting for sleep, you might start to wonder if there really are supernatural evils that might choose to come – for you. Pleasant dreams. Well, no – not really.

Wisdom, humor, and dark observations by the founder of the Church of Satan. LaVey ponders such topics as nonconformity, occult faddism, erotic politics, the "Goodguy badge," demoralization and the construction of artificial human companions.

Compiled by the Dark Poet Princess, Xtina Marie, here are sixteen delectably horrific tales of the sinister side of dark romance, where not everything is hearts and flowers and moonlight strolls hand-in-hand with your beautiful soulmate... The phenomenal anthology - named in honor of that unique part of the female anatomy believed by some to summon Satan himself - overflows with the darkest storytelling and the brightest talent on the independent writing scene today... Madison Estes, John Leonard, J.N. Cameron, Arista Cyrene, Steve Wands, Joe Palumbo, Jeremy Billingsley, James Pyles, Micah Castle, Glen Damien Campbell, Tiffany Michelle Brown, Candace Gleave, David Turnbull, Vivian Kasley, Aric Davis, and Jonathan Walter

Maggie Fiori, magazine editor and amateur sleuth, gets entangled in a high-profile murder among San Francisco's elite.

Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages—and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world. From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras, Stewart Lee Allen engagingly illustrates that when a pleasure as primal as eating is criminalized, there is often an astonishing tale to tell. Among the foods thought to encourage Lust, the love apple (now known as the tomato) was thought to possess demonic spirits until the nineteenth century. The Gluttony “course” invites the reader to an ancient Roman dinner party where nearly every dish served—from poppy-crusted rodents to “Trojan Pork”—was considered a crime against the state. While the vice known as Sloth introduces the sad story of “The Lazy Root” (the potato), whose popularity in Ireland led British moralists to claim that the Great Famine was God’s way of punishing the Irish for eating a food that bred degeneracy and idleness. Filled with incredible food history and the author’s travels to many of these exotic locales, In the Devil’s Garden also features recipes like the matzo-ball stews outlawed by the Spanish Inquisition and the forbidden “chocolate champagnes” of the Aztecs. This is truly a delectable book that will be consumed by food lovers, culinary historians, amateur anthropologists, and armchair travelers alike. Bon appétit!