“Familiarity Is Not Truth”

How We ‘Demonize’ the Occult and Satanic

Mitch in Los Angeles. (Jacqueline Castel)

This article is based on a Halloween-eve discussion I had with artist and musician Josh T. Romero, which can be viewed in full here. In it, I consider the intersection between the occult and horror, how we allow in or exclude certain religious concepts, why it is vital to continue expanding the parameters of the search, and the impulse behind modern…