La-Bas

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Published 8 February 1989
Regarded as a study in Satanism, "La-Bas" by Huysmans presents the most detailed descriptions of the black magic and rituals. He regarded Satanism as the only logical consequence of the modernism taking roots in society. It is one man's obsession with a figure in history that practised and perpetrated vilest acts.