This book is described as a cultural, historical and religious study of evil and the Devil; how various civilizations throughout History have viewed the concept of an “ultimate evil”, and references several major literary, religious and historical figures, from the Persian sages Zoroaster and Mani, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, John Milton, Edgar Allan Poe, Aleister Crowley, and many more, among them Charles Baudelaire, whose story “The Generous Gambler” is where Sullivan got the title. With a side trip into the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980’s, Mexican […]
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
The Devil's Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared by Randall Sullivan
