The shocking cults whose activities have created international headlines
The recent brutal killing of actress Sharon Tate has turned the horrified eyes of the world onto the bizarre and perverted underworld of California.
Readers have learned of the roaming ritual killers, 'Satan's Slaves', of black magic practices, of free-love societies and numerous cults devoted to all manner of sexual deviations.
In the astonishing report by a writer who has lived and worked in the 'golden land' of California (he, in fact, even tried to found his own religion) the curtain is pulled back on the hippies, degenerates, cranks and odd-balls who are all striving to create their own promised lands.
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But it's the world of the "outlaw" bikers that truly comes alive in the novel. Billie gets entangled with a gang called The Devil's Own, loosely based on the real-life Satan's Slaves, to which Denby claimed affiliation in the Seventies after marrying one of its members at the age of 19.
The biker gang culture, she says, wasn't all that different from the traditional army culture she knew at home. "It was ruled by hierarchy - and I was used to that sort of life. It was just like the golf club." Women were, and still are, barred from achieving full membership of biker gangs, and were treated as groupies or ornamental "chicks" at parties. Denby insists that a nightmarish episode featuring the severed head of a young girl procured from a "bent mortician", and displayed at a biker party in a birdcage, was inspired by a real-life incident.
In Billie Morgan, then, The Devil's Own are almost without exception a bunch of violent, sexist, antisocial men who submit to the steely, all-powerful leadership of a Londoner named Carl. Though the parallels with Satan's Slaves aren't exact, Denby isn't looking forward to bumping into her old gang. "They don't come off too badly, but I'm still expecting a ticking off," she laughs.
Hellstrom visited the house for the first time since childhood and found his mother's diary. Hellstrom was incredulous at the revelations contained therein. At that point, "Satan," aware of his son's new knowledge, directed him telepathically through the house's secret basement interdimensional passageway to the demon's netherworld domain. There Hellstrom first met his father in his satanic guise, who beseeched his son to disregard his mother's diary's warnings and serve him in "hell." "Satan" transported Hellstrom back to the surface world, whereupon Hellstrom decided to dedicate himself instead to fighting his father's evil. Hellstrom immediately returned to the region "below" to attempt to battle "Satan." This first confrontation was something of a victory for Daimon Hellstrom, managing as he did to pit many of "Satan's" slaves against their master, as well as to steal the satanic trident of "Satan" and demon-drawn chariot.
During this battle, Daimon Hellstrom discovered the powers of the Darksoul that he had inherited from his father. He declared himself the Son of Satan, and for the next several years battled many manifestations of demonic evil on Earth as well as other realms. He eventually met his adult sister, Satana, who had become a succubus, and battled her on at least one occasion. During this period, the Son of Satan maintained his civilian identity of occult expert Daimon Hellstrom, and was a visiting specialist at a St. Louis college.
Just a note to say that the little "episode" with Jason Molloy storming out of the Satans Slaves was in response to him hearing anarchist informants were parked outside, I heard from a sharp skin inside that he was in the process of having his head shaved when he had someone from the satans slaves run up and tell him there was a white van with tinted windows outside, and he ran outside or something, I saw his buddies jump over the back fence and I think they followed some guys in the white van with tinted windows. I saw him later with a camera taking pictures of somone else down the block, I then saw him come back 20 minutes later in different clothes and a fully shaved head, and he was taking photos of cars and writing down numberplates.
The nuns of saint archangel(1973), aka Innocents From Hell; Sisters of Satan; Satan's Slaves; The Nun and the Devil; La Monache di Sant'ArchAngelo. Cloistered carpet munchers get tortured and tormented in this beautifully photographed, hard to find import. No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition! Gorgeous UNCUT and letterboxed English language print.
Have you ever heard or come into the contact with any of the following street gangs? The Devil's Henchmen? Satan's Slaves? The Headhunters? The Grim Reapers? No, you won't find any of these gangbangers on the streets of Los Angeles or Newark or Chicago or New York or even in Omaha -- you'll find them in the cities of -- of all places -- New Zealand.
A man called Tiny wore the diamond-shaped piece of cloth on the back of his denim jacket when he arrived in the sleepy town of Sioux City, Iowa, in 1962. A gift from his brothers in California, the Satan's Slaves patch was a license to assemble his own fellowship of degenerates, a secret society that would have all of middle America in which to toss around its muscle.
Joolz Denby was born in 1955 to an SAS father and a glamorous mother. She married an outlaw biker - a member of the Satan's Slaves - at 19. She regularly tours with cult underground band New Model Army and is an internationally respected spoken word artist and illustrator. She is the author of the novels Stone Baby, Corazon and Billie Morgan, (which was short listed for the Orange Prize 2005) and four collections of poetry and short stories. Joolz gives a poetry performance and readings from her novels followed by questions and answers.
People seem to find it easier to believe in the Devil than in God. And when one lands in hell, the worse you were in life, the stronger you will be down below! Satan's slaves will bring you the heads of the righteous and the hearts of the meek for your evening meal. So why not steal from thy neighbor? Why not torture and mutilate for fun? If it makes you feel strong and powerful to make another person weak and helpless, why not rape and humilate? And for the ultimate expression of power over another, why not kill?
Sinners, Christ is still the same,
O that you could likewise fear!
Then the mention of his name
Would be music to your ear:
Jesus rescues Satan's slaves,
His dear wounds still plead, Forgive!
Jesus to the utmost saves;
Sinners, look to him and live
patient after that america will be over and after it we will be over and then all the world will be satan's slaves and the time will come for judgement
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