Includes bibliographical references. At head of title: FAB Press presents a Spectacular Optical book. Title from cover. "The first edition of this book was originally published in July 2015 by Spectacular Optical." -- page 2
Contents:
Afterword / John Schooley. Introduction / by Kier-La Janisse -- "The only word in the world is mine": remembering 'michelle remembers' / by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- The unholy passion: sex and gender anxiety in Russ Martin's erotic horror paperbacks / by Alison Nastasi -- Dicing with the devil: the crusade against gaming / by Gavin Baddeley -- 20-sided sins: how Jack T. Chick was drawn into the rpg war / by Paul Corupe -- Masters of the imagination: fundamentalist readings of the occult in cartoons of the 1980s / by Joshua Benjamin Graham -- Devil on the line: technology and the Satanic film / by Kevin L. Ferguson -- All hail the acid king: the Ricky Kasso case in popular culture / by Leslie Hatton -- "What about these 10,000 souls, buster?" Geraldo's devil worship special / by Alison Lang -- The filthy 15: when Venom and King Diamond met the Washington wives / by Liisa Ladouceur -- Scapegoat of a nation: the demonization of MTV and the music video / by Stacy Rusnak -- Trick or treat: heavy metal and devil worship in '80s cult cinema / by Samm Deighan -- Stealing the devil's music: the rise of Christian metal and punk / by David Bertrand -- The tracking of evil: home video and the proliferation of satanic panic / by Wm. Conley -- Bedeviling Bob: pranking "talk back with Bob Larson" / by Forrest Jackson -- Confessions of a creature feature preacher: or, how I learned to stop worrying about Satanism and love Mike Warnke / by David Canfield Bouc émissaire: manifestations of Satanic anxiety in Québec / by Ralph Elawani and Gil Nault -- The devil down under: Satanic panic in Australia, from Rosaleen Norton to 'Alison's birthday' / by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Guiltless: Britain's moral panics, Satanic hysteria and the strange case of genesis p-orridge / by David Flint -- False history syndrome: HBO's 'indictment: the McMartin trial' / by Adrian Mack -- End of the '80s: paranoia as comic catharsis in Joe Dante's 'the 'burbs' / by Kurt Halfyard -- Afterword / John Schooley.
Summary:
In the 1980s, it seemed impossible to escape Satan's supposed influence. Everywhere you turned, there were warnings about a widespread evil conspiracy to indoctrinate the vulnerable through the media they consumed. This percolating cultural hysteria, now known as the Satanic Panic, not only sought to convince us of devils lurking behind the dials of our TVs and radios and the hellfire that awaited on book and video store shelves, it also created its own fascinating cultural legacy of Satan-battling VHS tapes, audio cassettes and literature.
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