Synopsis "Satanskin (in English)"
SATANSKIN is the collection of "graveyard erotica" first published in 1992, twenty stories promising "sex magick, lunar mutiny, excremental demonolatry, in utero lycanthropy, sadomasochistic vampirism, oneiric post-mortem malediction, and other bizarre manias". In Devil's Gold, a transsexual pact with faecal demons leads to unbounded metamorphoses; a maniac with White Meat Fever steals female anatomy to usurp the moon; skinless nuns with Shadow Sickness fall prey to a priapic scavenger from Hell; a hapless traveller enters the Tongue Cathedral and finds himself inside a vampire's wet-dream; in The Venus Eye, an angel wreaks retribution on a paedophiliac butcher from within her coffin. A remarkable collection of stories. The writing is black as hell, by turns violently obscene, repulsive, bizarre. No taboo goes unchallenged, no horror unexplored. ( Outlook) This collection contains the original text of 'Raism', Havoc's first published anti-novel. A philosophy steeped in blood and insanity, a pact with Hell at its core. Black magic, sex magic, homicidal misanthropy, and unbridled decadent lusts fuelled Gilles de Rais on his journey into the Mediaeval heart of darkness.
