>>41025018
Yes and no.
Picolazzo based the cult's trappings on the King In Yellow mythos. But the actual crimes of the cult are based on several things: 1) the Finder's Cult and 2) the Franklin Scandal.
The Finder's Cult is described in detail in "Programmed to Kill," and several other "suppressed" journalistic accounts of the cult world of the 90s and 2000s.
The Franklin Scandal is best explored in the book "The Franklin Scandal," which is where TD's main themes come from: powerful politicians and law enforcement protecting sex crime and pedorasty rings, the sex crime rings filming their crimes and probably selling the footage, and the aspect of the central detective (the real life Rust Cohle) who cannot stop sliding down the spiral of evil once he unearths what's happening.
Unfortunately the real Rust Cohle died in a "mysterious" plane accident while investigating the case.
See also: "Eye of the Chickenhawk" and oddly, "The Black Arts" a pop culture book that randomly ends with a full account of weird Satanic cults from ancient times to today.
The Satanic cult stuff, in my opinion, is all window dressing. The pedorasty and pedos in power is for two purposes: blackmail (you can cheat code democracy very easily by installing pedos into power) and creating programmable individuals who are so traumatized they essentially get D.I.D. disorder and become bio-robots.
"The Pheonix Program" is recommended to explore how all of this got started.
TD's success, imo, required the Q-Anon psy-op to be rolled out to counter its themes. Shitcoat the idea of powerful pedo networks and abuse cults, and no one will talk about it. Which is where we are today.
Cannot stress enough how important it is to read these books, as well as Chaos and "Aberration in the Heartland," to understand where we are as a species today and why we're here.