The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie is a real masterpiece of modern literature.

Of course, this demonization is nothing like what we saw during the days of the USSR.

A group of well known nationalist intellectuals, including film director Nikita Mikhalkov, artist Ilya Glazunov, and writers Valentin Rasputin and Vasily Belov, weighed in with a petition calling the exhibition a new stage of conscious Satanism.

Today, however, that orientalist perspective has shifted in place of a distorting demonization there is now a new, liberal view that Iran is ripe for profit, if only we have the courage to reach out and grab it.

There was the alienation of smallholders property, in what was known as the enclosure movement. And there were complaints about urban pollution and inhumane factory conditions in what William Blake called Britain s dark Satanic mills.

Dark Places (2009) is about a woman who investigates whether or not her incarcerated brother was truly responsible for the murder of their family in the 1980s, which happened when she was a child during the era of panic about Satanic ritual abuse.