num_pages: 302
description: The spectre of Gilles de Rais, satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. A fallen general, once the champion of Jeanne d'Arc, de Rais' riches and experimentations led him to the very gates of Hell.With quotations, essays and fiction, as well as a complete chronology and register of people and places in de Rais' brief but cataclysmic existence, "Dark Star is a richevocation of the satanic allure of the most intriguing figure in the annals of mass murder.
language: English
title: Dark Star : The Satanic Rites of Gilles de Rais
titlecomplete: Dark Star : The Satanic Rites of Gilles de Rais
genres: Nonfiction, France, History
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Creation Books