SATANIC PANIC: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s

Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom: FAB Press Ltd, 2016. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Signed by Kier-La Janisse on the front flyleaf. Features essays and interviews by 20 writers who address the ways the widespread fear of a Satanic conspiracy was both illuminated and propagated through almost every pop culture pathway in the 1980s, from heavy metal music to Dungeons & Dragons role playing games, Christian comics, direct-to-VHS scare films, pulp paperbacks, Saturday morning cartoons, TV talk shows, and even home computers. Also includes case studies on Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth and Long Island "acid king" killer Ricky Kasso. Octavo: 362, [6] pp. with numerous illustrations (come color). Original pictorial boards; issued without a dust jacket. Some very mild edgewear; else very good or better. (Inventory #: 77830)