Brian SpiesGrowing up in the 1980s and 90s, at the height of The Satanic Panic, and at the tale end of the Cold War, in a vacuum of actual terror that drove an internalized cultural need for an unimaginable enemy in the unending quest for war, money and power. was taught to fear sex and the dark, in equal measure, both of which go bump in the night. Encountering Anton LaVey's The Church of Satan as a teenager and finding it far more ghoulish than what I had been taught Satanism was. In late 2021, in one of my many deep digs into the internet, I encountered, on the US Department of Justice website, a manual entitled Satanic Cult Awareness. A product of that effort to scare American parents into fearing supposed efforts to hijack their children into Satan's army that is equally parts self-contradictory screed and cartoonish bafoonery, both in its form and content. It would inspire the creation of The Cross of Confusion, a body of work that was the culmination of my partnership with my former creative and spiritual partner and this book, which you hold in your hands. It's my intention for this tomb to memorialize both the period in our culture which it was inspired by and the period in my own life that it documents. You can learn more about me on my website at brianspiesartist.com Hail Satan? Read More Read Less