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03866aam a22004098i 4500 001 20C2DF720C3711EF907AC7B83FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240507010037 008 240129s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023056567 020 $a 0802119131 020 $a 9780802119131 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a BL480 $b .S855 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20240206 100 1 $a Sullivan, Randall, $e author. $9 40310 245 14 $a THE DEVIL'S BEST TRICK : $b HOW THE FACE OF EVIL DISAPPEARED / $c Randall Sullivan. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2405 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Atlantic Monthly Press, $c [2024] 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/05/14 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Part true crime story, part religious and literary history, an investigation into the nature of evil and the figure of the Devil by acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan. How we explain the evils of the world-and the darkest parts of ourselves-has preoccupied humans throughout history. A sweeping and comprehensive search for the origins of belief in a Satanic figure across the centuries, The Devil's Best Trick is a keen investigation into the inescapable reality of evil and the myriad ways we attempt tounderstand it. Instructive, riveting, and unnerving, this is a profound rumination on crime, violence, and the darkness in all of us. In The Devil's Best Trick, Randall Sullivan travels to Catemaco, Mexico, to participate in the "Hour of the Witches"-an annual ceremony in which hundreds of people congregate in the jungle south of Vera Cruz to negotiate terms with El Diablo. He takes us through the most famous and best-documented exorcism in American history, which lasted four months. And, woven throughout, he delivers original reporting on the shocking story of a small town in Texas that, one summer in 1988, unraveled into paranoia and panic after a seventeen-year-old boy was found hanging from the branch of a horse apple tree and rumors about Satanic worship and cults spread throughout the wider community. Sullivan also brilliantly melds historical, religious, and cultural conceptions of evil: from the Book of Job to the New Testament to the witch hunts in Europe in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries to the history of the devil-worshipping "Black Mass" ceremony and its depictions in nineteenth century French literature. He brings us through to the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s and the story of one brutal serial killer, pondering the psychology ofevil. He weaves in writings by John Milton, William Blake, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and many more, among them Charles Baudelaire, from whose work Sullivan took the title of the book. Nimble and expertly researched, The Devil's Best Trick brilliantly melds cultural and historical commentary and a suspenseful true-crime narrative. Randall Sullivan, whose reportage and narrative skill has been called "extraordinary" and "enthralling" by Rolling Stone, takes on a bold task in this book that is both biography of the Devil and a look at how evil manifests in the world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Devil. 650 0 $a Exorcism. $9 69349 650 0 $a Good and evil $x Psychological aspects. $9 94851 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Sullivan, Randall. $t Devil's best trick $b First edition. $d New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2024] $z 9780802162908 $w (DLC) 2023056568 941 $a 6 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240702031848.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240611032839.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240611031539.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240604014452.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240604012010.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240507010154.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=20C2DF720C3711EF907AC7B83FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search