A fascinating glimpse into the pagan counterculture from the "Satanic Panic” to "occulture.”
Delinquent Elementals: The Very Best of Pagan News collects some of the finest articles news
reports interviews and humor that appeared in this singular publication providing a
fascinating glimpse into the pagan counterculture. It charts the historical timeline of the
Satanic Panic scandal of the late 1980s documents previously uncollected information and
provides a wide selection of practical knowledge and insight into occult practice. It reveals
how occult practitioners interacted with the wider culture—bringing about what is now termed
"occulture”: the intersection of esoteric themes with popular culture political activism and
the struggle for LGBTQ rights and recognition. Wonderfully unpretentious and absurdly funny
this is the definitive guide to the magazine that redefined the nature of late-twentieth
century occultism.
