Weird Tract Number 28: "Games Satan Plays" by Stan Baldwin

Troy Davis writes:

This 32-page booklet from 1974 is a pre-Satanic Panic warning about the dangers of activities such as the use of Ouija boards, psychedelic drugs, and spiritism. Author Stan Baldwin makes the argument that these practices can open the unsuspecting dabbler to demonic possession. This is standard fundamentalist fare. The anonymous cover artist appears to have been influenced by Steve Ditko's Doctor Strange psychedelic artwork.

I lampooned this component of the fundamentalist worldview with the "Doorways to Demonic Possession" panel (below) in my various Chick tract parodies (read them here).  This article discusses how this panel became a viral Internet meme.

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