The summer of '67 ... the summer of A Whiter Shade of Pale, Mellow Yellow and Sgt. Pepper ... Peter is into pathworking meditations, backwards causation, easy sex and drugs. There is acid on the streets and darker things are on the move... Peter is an apprentice sorcerer who keeps a diary as part of an occult discipline, imposed upon him by the Black Light Lodge. That diary becomes both the story of the quest for a virgin to seduce and sacrifice and the chronicle of a demonic love. In the end, he will no longer be able to distinguish a bad trip from a visitation from Hell. Satan Wants Me is about the perils and deceits of self-revelation. It is a novel for anyone who wants to know what it was like to be young in the 1960s - if one was into amphetamines, weird sex and Devil-worship.

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Robert Irwin

Last, First

1st Dedalus pbk. ed, Sawtry, Cambs, Gardena, CA, 2007

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Reprint edition, October 15, 2007

New York, 2012

2015

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Sex, drugs, satanism, rock and roll and the 1960s. Irwin is a writer of immense subtlety and craftmanship, and offers us a vivid and utterly convincing portrait of life on the loopier fringes of the Sixties. Satan Wants Me is black, compulsive and very, very funny. Christopher Hart in The Daily Telegraph Irwin's writing is witty and scabrous but it is also subtle in a way that keeps catching the reader out. The blend of the fantastical with the philosophical has been the defining characteristic of Irwin's fiction and in Peter's drug-drenched, satan-haunted diary, it has found its perfect expression. Tom Holland in The New Statesman & Society Part of the book's fertile comedy stems from the ironic interweaving of the jargons of sociology, hippiedom and magick. It is hard to resist a pot-head mystic who hopes the Apocalypse will come on Wednesday because it will break up the week. Tom Deveson in The Sunday Times He is a first-rate, startling novelist; Satan Wants Me and Exquisite Corpse, are both about the irruption of exotic intellectual movements - Satanism and surrealism - into the calm procession of English life. Both could be wonderfully funny books, but are always fascinatingly tempted by the possibility of becoming something bigger, blacker, more quietly distressing. Philip Hensher in The Spectator Robert Irwin's Satan Wants Me was a mad confection of black magic and 60s sexual liberation, a paranoid fantasy that drew heavily on the legacy of Aleister Crowley, but achieved a wonderful lightness of touch. Alex Clark in The Guardian's Books of the Year

Robert Irwin. Originally Published: 1999.

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