Reference Materials

Reference materials are a must when researching any topic. At the Browne Popular Culture Library we have a wide assortment of dictionaries and encyclopedias relating to demonology, occultism, spiritualism, satanism, witchcraft and other areas relating to spirituality and the supernatural including the Dictionary of Demonology by Collin de Plancy, 1965 (BF 1503 .C613 cop. 2), Dictionary of Spiritualism by Harry E. Wedeck, 1971 (BF 1025 .W4), An Encyclopedia of Occultism by Lewis Spence, 1960 (BF 1025 .S7 1960b), Encyclopedia Sourcebook of Satanism edited by James R. Lewis & Jesper Aagaard Petersen, 2008 (BF 1548 .E53 2008), The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology by Rossell Hope Robbins, 1960 (BF 1503 .R6 cop.2). 

Well rounded research involving multiple viewpoints is a must for any topic such as The Satanic Mass: A Sociological and Criminological Study by Henry T. F. Rhodes, 1955 (BF 1548 .R5 1955), and the primary resource,The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey (BF 1548 .L38 1969), seen as one of the most important document to influence contemporary Satanism, as well as The Second Coming: Satanism in America by Arthur Lyons (BF 1548 .L9 cop.3), an investigative account written as a direct result of the publication of The Satanic Bible.