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The modern rides parallel with the fifteenth-century to tell the tale of Joan Archer as she sets out on a mission to swear-in the President of the Nameless who are in a turf war with a rival club, the Goddamns. In less than a year, Joan is dead and her mission accomplished. The devastated Bluebeard, however, is not content to let her rest in peace. In his attempt to justify murder, he convinced himself he was above the law. Regrettably, he sank beneath it. Ultimately, both were destroyed by a degenerate modernity even as they tried to fight their way through it.Sadly, this is far too often what happens to our would-be saviors and heroes. This tale of love and faith gone awry is a tragic encounter between tradition and progress. Though progress claims its victims, Joan inspires a series of events in later books that will see tradition weather the coming storm.

Marked by a madman on a killing spree, a young girl relates the sordid tale of the case of a convent possession from the confines of her room in a mental health institution. She sets the stage in seventeenth-century France, where a priest was burned for causing the demonic bewitchment of the Ursuline sisters. Was this alleged possession and its treatment so different from the experiences of our narrator at the hands of modern psychiatry? Not in the mind of the patient where the witch hunter and the doctor become one.Godless takes a questionable chapter in the history of Catholicism and turns it upside-down in the hopes that a different angle will reveal a different past, and present. Godless is a tale of the despised, free-thinking Other in confrontation with a liberal society whose modern-day Inquisitors promote little more than conformity and submission. Rachel Summers, known as the Dropout Philosopher, holds degrees in History, Comparative Religions, English Literature, and Philosophy but ran afoul of academia when her dissertation proposal was rejected as something that might cause a scandal. She walked away and took the path of fiction. This is her second

Told backward to unwrite a mistaken duality, The Twisted Rib is a modern-day untelling of seven Biblical heroines long maligned as wicked and willful. Embracing these stigmatized women, however, may well lead to our much-needed realignment with natural masculine and feminine poles, so corrupted by the rotten civilization that peddles obscenity and licentiousness as normal while pretending that the heterosexual male is the root of all the world

Both the 'Malleus Maleficarum' and the 'Cautio Criminalis' hold a special place in the history of the European witch trials, but this is where the similarities between these contentious books ends. The 'Malleus' rails against women and their bewitching ways while the 'Cautio' defends the accused and condemns the often corrupted processes of the trials. Whether for or against, both of these primary sources provide valuable insight into the late medieval mindset and both should be read by any who hope to understand the era. Nonetheless, such texts can be daunting if not tedious, as both are written in the ecclesiastical question and answer format which can wear down any reader. Hence this book, an abridged and modernized version of both texts. 'By the Pricking Needle' is intended as a reference guide and a companion to both the 'Malleus' and the Cautio'. May what you learn herein stir the cauldron of your mind.

Nietzsche's Zarathustra warned us, "The good have always been the beginning of the end," but it seems the message was lost somewhere in the shuffle of propaganda. Just the same, we know it to be true even as we passively watch the "good" tell us we must integrate, tolerate, and beg forgiveness. We also know that the end is merely a new beginning. Is this what we long for, a chance to rise from the ashes just to see if we can do it? Is this the end game of the West's so-called Faustian soul?Fellow citizens, this is not a game but the stakes are high and our freedoms have been wagered. Shall we sit idly by as Western Civilization crumbles?