Any horror fan knows that good old Lucifer has been showing up in movies since pretty much the beginning of cinema, with Georges Méliès 1896 short film, The House of the Devil. While mainly horror films, there are plenty of other sub-genres, from comedies to even romance, he’s always poking into other’s business. But when it comes to the horror genre, we know Satan is one villain you don’t want to come up against!

Back in 2001, Creation Books released The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema by Nikolas Schreck, which gave readers a great little overview of Satanic Cinema, which goes for a bit of a high price on the secondary market. But now, Schreck is back with an updated edition, now being released by Headpress in the UK. It’s priced at £24.99 with an additional 25% discount if you used the code SATANIC25 upon checkout. With the postage of £3.99, and to convert it to US dollars, it is only about $28.50. According to the description, the volume “documents all of Satan’s cinematic incarnations, covering not only the horror genre but also a whole range of sub-genres including hardcore porn, mondo and underground film.” How can that not be a great read???

But wait . . . there’s more! Earlier this year, from author P.J. Thorndyke, we get Satan in the Celluloid: 100 Satanic and Occult Horror Movies of the 1970s. Covering 100 films from not only here in the states but from around the world. As we said about the devil being around movies since the beginning, it was the ’70s when Big Lou was running rampant, from the big hitters like The Exorcist (1973), The Omen (1976), to the lesser-known titles like Race with the Devil (1975), and The Brotherhood of Satan (1971). Some of these may not deal with Satan directly, branching off into paganism, such as in The Wicker Man (1973), but we know the end results are the same.

Priced at only $16 and being close to 400 pages, not to mention this incredible looking cover, how could you not have to have this volume in your collection? I know I have both of these books on order and can’t wait to dig into them once they get here.

No matter your feelings on the subject, for horror fans, we can’t ignore the impact that the devil, or even the occult, has made on the genre. It has consistently given new versions of very old stories, but done in so many unique and different ways, there is always something to be entertained by.