Anton LaVey Illuminated

Anton Szandor LaVey is best known for founding the Church of Satan in 1966 and later writing one of the best-selling books of its time, The Satanic Bible. Musician, photographer, and lion tamer, the “ Black Pope ” was infamous for his love for provocation and organizing scandalously blasphemous ceremonies under the flashes of media photographers.

Within the pages of this sketchbook, we invite you to discover a more intimate Anton LaVey through a selection of his previously unpublished artworks and sketches. Diane Hegarty, LaVey’s partner for nearly 25 years, encouraged him to catalog the small drawings he liked to scribble on the back of coffee-stained Church of Satan leaflets. LaVey created entertaining caricatures, developed magical symbols, and drew witches to amuse his children.

Anton and Diane entrusted these drawings to their grandson, Stanton. This precious heritage is a testimony to the vivid imagination of one of the most enigmatic personalities of modern esotericism.

142 pages , 7"x10" (18cmX26cm), softcover.