Folio Society - The Devils Of Loudun by Aldous Huxley 1986  Hardback Book with Slipcase 
Book in very good unmarked condition
Some minor shelf wear to the slipcase 
Folio Society First Edition
Publisher Folio Society, London; 1986
Red Cloth Hardback, 311 pp
Illustrations by John Bratby
Size 240 x 160mm

This is a historical narrative of supposed demonic possession, religious fanaticism, sexual repression, and mass hysteria which occurred in seventeenth-century France surrounding unexplained events that took place in the small town of Loudun. It centers on Roman Catholic priest Urbain Grandier and an entire convent of Ursuline nuns, who allegedly became possessed by demons after Grandier made a pact with Satan. The events led to several public exorcisms as well as executions by burning.