The Mikes emerge from a longer-than-usual hiatus with a classic of satanic literature. We find much to admire in this early and influential entry in to the literature of the Dark Lord. We also spend some awkward minutes counting our orifices.
It's Cocktail Time!
Holy Water
In a Collins glass filled with ice cubes combine:
- 1 shot bourbon
- 1 shot brandy
- 1 shot sweet vermouth
- 1 shot lemon simple syrup
- 1/2 shot Farigoule
Top off with filtered or distilled water.
Stir and enjoy (once you've blessed your nine orifices, of course).
Special closing music: "The Devil Rides Out" by Icarus
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I've only seen Hammer's movie version of this book. I'd heard of Wheatley a long time back but somehow got the impression that he was writing 'Christian Horror'... ala Ted Decker or the Left Behind books.
You guys make it sound a lot more interesting that I'd imagined, at least worth a weekend's read... and like you say, it's a 'classic'.
Alan Moore said in a recent interview ( I think in Comic Book Resources)that he was reading Wheatley attentively at age 10, 11, 12.
Later he was taken aback when he began to understand Wheatley's conservative politics.
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