Anton LaVey: Legend and Reality

compiled by his daughter Zeena and Nikolas Schreck - February 2, 1998

Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-1997), along with Charles Manson, Timothy
Leary, and other messianic pop gurus, was a notorious figure of the
1960s' subculture of social experiment. As the flamboyant High Priest
of the Church of Satan and the author of the Satanic Bible, he served
as an ideal bogeyman for the sensation-seeking American media of that
tumultuous period.

His curious celebrity was based largely on a self-created legend. This
carefully-orchestrated legend may, in the final analysis, be LaVey's
most enduring legacy. LaVey disseminated his legend through interviews...