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Anton Szandor LaVey was an American writer, musician, and Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan, and the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism. He authored several books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Witch, The Satanic Rituals, The Devil's Notebook, and Satan Speaks!. In addition, he released three albums, including The Satanic Mass, Satan Takes a Holiday, and Strange Music. He…
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culture · American writer and Satanist (1930–1997) · writer · philosopher · Satanist · occultist · also Anton LaVey, Anton Szandor LaVey, Howard Stanton Levey, LaVey
Born 11 April 1930 · Died 29 October 1997 · Q26168
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Snopes rated the claim “On his deathbed, Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, said: “Oh my, oh my, what have I done! There’s something very wrong, there’s something very wrong, there’s something very wrong!”” Unfounded (retired).
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His estranged daughter Zeena Schreck and her then husband Nikolas Schreck published a nine-page "fact sheet", in which they endorsed Wright's earlier allegations and claimed that many more of LaVey's stories about his li
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Died 1997-10-29.
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The religious studies scholar Graham Harvey wrote that although the Church had no organized presence in the United Kingdom, LaVey's writings were widely accessible in British bookshops
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Barton gave birth to Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey
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The journalist Lawrence Wright revealed that through his own investigative work, he found that many of LaVey's claims about his life had been untrue
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As The Satanic Witch), and The Satanic Rituals
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The FBI interviewed LaVey in connection with an alleged plot to murder Ted Kennedy
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And The Secret Life of a Satanist by Blanche Barton, published in 1990
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The public work at LaVey's Black House in San Francisco was curtailed and work was continued via sanctioned regional "grottoes"
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“immortalize a writer who had profoundly reached me”
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And starred Don Rickles as the evil magician and Satanic cult leader Asmodeus, whose Mephistophelean persona is virtually identical to that which LaVey adopted one month later
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Black Sun by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke states, "James Wagner, a former Security Echelon (SE) commander, recalls that relations between the NRP and the Church of Satan, founded in 1966 by Anton Szandor LaVey, were cordial.
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By Anton Szandor LaVey, were cordial
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Acquired a lion, named Togare, as a pet
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After LaVey became involved with Diane Hegarty
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And they married the following year, when Lansing was fifteen years old
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In Chicago, Illinois, to an American family with mixed European ancestry
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Born 1930-04-11.
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