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DOWN THERE?J. K. Huysmans??? A. & C. Boni ($2.50). A sizzling, sulphuric translation of La Bas?the uttermost in demonology. With its pseudo-scientific basis of historical fact, in the story of Bluebeard and the study of the cult of Satanism and the Black Mass, the book is bloodcurdling, grotesquely horrible, reminiscent of William Blake. But then, one does not expect an Elsie Dinsmore story inside of a blood-red cover spouting pitchforks and lurid tongues of flame. The startled Manhattan censors recently frowned upon...
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