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Satanic Shadows edited by G H Janus

Paperback – Decide Press – December 2023 – 101 pages

From Georges Méliès’ diabolic trick-film “Le Manoir Du Diable“, shot in 1896, to such mysterious silent works as “Witchcraft Through The Ages“, “Faust” and “Birth Of The Anti-Christ“, and beyond to the burgeoning sound era, SATANIC SHADOWS documents all of the key filmic invocations of Satan, his victims and his worshippers unleashed in the first four decades of commercial cinema.

SATANIC SHADOWS shows how narratives of sin, temptation and damnation were central to the roots of cinema’s horror and phantasy genres, and how the Devil’s dark, horned figure overshadowed all others in the race to astonish and terrify the spectator.

With a wide array of more than 100 illuminating production photographs – many assembled from global film archives and seldom, if ever, previously published – this comprehensive illustrated filmography references over 250 films, and also includes a full index of titles.