" In a less scientific age he would have been a devil-worshiper, a partaker in the abominations of the Black Mass; or he would have given himself to the study and practice of sorcery. His was a religious soul that had failed to find good in the scheme of things; and lacking it, was impelled to make of evil itself an object of secret reverence.

- The Devotee of Evil "

― Clark Ashton Smith , The Return Of The Sorcerer: The Best Of Clark Ashton Smith