Editor Peter Haining is a descendant of Janet Haining, condemned as a witch and burned at the stake in 1654. She was charged with owning a “black boke of devil’s lore” containing the secrets of Black Magic.
This anthology contains: Introduction by August Derleth; The Satanic Mass by Montague Summers; The Sanctuary by E. F. Benson; The Festival by H. P. Lovecraft; The Watcher From the Sky by August Derleth; The Black Magician by Dennis Wheatley; The Initiation by Aleister Crowley; The Book by Margaret Irwin; No News Today by Cleve Cartmill; Spawn Of The Dark One by Robert Bloch; and Black Magic Battle In The Church – Three Satanists Fight Vicar, 78 – from the Sunday Mirror, December 8th, 1968.
