Advertise on podcast: Black Mass Appeal: Modern Satanism for the Masses

Modern pop culture loves witches, and witches (mostly) love Satan, but why are the devil and all his fem-affirming works having this cultural moment? We're joined by Dr. Miranda Corcoran, author of the new book "Satanism & Feminism In Popular Culture: Not Today Satan."

The king is dead, long live…an incomplete understanding of who the king even was? At the end of the 19th century, an unlikely writer penned a horror classic that still haunts readers with a zeitgeist of fear, decadence, and the collapse of religious faith.

Vampires suck. But people love them anyway. For hundreds of years, mortals have credited tehse undead ingenues with a downright devilish disposition, so to help us dig up facts about blasphemous bloodsuckers we're joined by Andrew, director of the new movie The Vampires of New Orleans.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a...witch?

We're turning a naked eye to a revealing Satanic practice and baring all on its origins.

It's time to cut the cards AND cut to the chase as we give tarot cards a straight deal with the devilish history of everyone's favorite spooky deck.

We fall headfirst down a waterslide of evangelical madness with the most baffling and bizarre takes from our private Satanic Panic literary stash.

Lucifer's the light of the world, but not everyone is so enlightened about the significance of that name. Here to help light up our lives, we're joined by the Presbytera of the Church of Lucifer.

I find myself a genius, a thief, a liar, a general moral vagabond, a fool more or less, and a philosopher. It serves to keep me wondering what the devil has in store for me.

Apparently some people really will buy anything, even the insultingly credulous sales pitch of a former "Satanist High Priest" turned comedian for Christ.

Don't worry, jokes about religion always land great, there's no way this can possibly go awry.

We curate the whitewashed history of dark arts.

All the devilish secrets of SF's most secretive society are exposed--including the ones where Bohemian Grove members just expose themselves.

We're back on the road to Perdition with Taylor from Antibot and Drew from Genetically Modified Skeptic.