There is a dark side to the City of Light. Its handsome buildings and pretty courtyards hold secrets. The city has a long history of spiritualism, alchemy, magick, spectral visions, strange rituals to which this is your guide. The 40-plus entries include a satanic church, Masonic museum, the home of Napoleon’s astrologer, a secret temple, haunted houses and gardens as well as places for present-day practitioners to find books, potions, tools and herbs to conduct their own research and rituals. "These magnificently designed fold-out maps provide unique and whimsical ways to explore dozens of locations around the world." -- The New York Times Philippe Baudouin is a radio producer and associate lecturer in information and communication science at the University of Paris-Saclay. His research on the history of occultism led him to publish several articles and books including Supernatural: A visual history of female mediums (Pyramyd) and Apparitions: The Archives of Haunted France (Hoebeke). Fiction, reality and the otherworldly co-exist in Herb Lester’s universe. Since 2010, our illustrated maps have documented the distinctive in the world’s great cities as well as charting locations associated with literature, rock’n’roll, the occult and wider pop culture. Increasingly untethered to the real world, our range of notepads from fictional hotels make ideal souvenirs from places no one can visit. Church of Saint-Merri 76 Rue de la Verrerie There it squats above the entrance – bat wings, goat horns, male features and female breasts. It’s our old friend Baphomet, a deity allegedly worshipped by the Knights Templar, whose Paris base was not far from here, and associated with various occult and mystical traditions, now most closely the Church of Satan. Inside the church, a prominently-placed stained glass depiction of a pentagram confirms that as a place of worship, there's something about this church that’s just a little different.