16. Rosemary’s Baby was great publicity for the Church of Satan
LaVey’s fascinating public image and willingness to talk to anyone he deemed able to garner the Church any sort of publicity meant that there was a boom in Satanism in popular culture in the 1960s and ‘70s. Media hysteria about the Church’s activities led to the publication of the bestselling Rosemary’s Baby, a novel about the birth of the Antichrist which became a famous movie. Although both book and film depicted a group of theistic Satanists, quite different from LaVey’s Church, both, in turn, inspired many curious minds to seek out the truth about Satanism in the 21st century.
