Demon King's Contract
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has been taken over by satanists. Among the participants is a debauched nun. A choking incense of henbane, datura, dried nightshade, and myrrh is burned. After a mass of obscenities and blasphemies and the desecration of the host, the place erupts in “a monstrous pandemonium of prostitutes and maniacs.” Participants, high on the fumes, tear off their clothes and writhe on the fl oor. Sexual acts are implied but not described by Huysmans; his two characters who are witnesses become disgusted and exit the scene. The HELL-FIRE CLUB, a fraternal group in London in the late 19th century, was said to perform a Black Mass regularly in worship of the Devil, though it is more likely that the rites
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