The True Story Behind Stranger Things' Satanic Panic
As ridiculous as it seems, Eddie's story reflects a real cultural phenomenon: the Satanic Panic, a paranoia over the threat ... movie starring a then-unknown Tom Hanks in his first leading role. D&D ...
The Satanic Epic
Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own. The story is beyond them. That hate in ...
A Satanic panic over church and state in Hail Satan?
is less about devotional doubt than it is a satirical eyebrow raised at the role of religion in modern politics. At the centre of this satire is the Satanic Temple, mostly devoted to thumbing its ...
The Satanic Panic: Beyond Dungeons & Dragons
Satanic Panic came to a pinnacle in the ’80s ... His work Folk Devils and Moral Panics lays out the elements: There are two roles in play with moral panic. The establishment or “moral entrepreneur” ...
'Stranger Things': Satanic Panic Explained
The Satanic panic “officially” started with ... Irving, who had been into role-playing games, committed suicide, and Pulling blamed D&D. She sued the publishers of D&D for wrongful death ...
Stranger Things: caught in the satanic panic of 80s TV
to “satanic worship, ritual sacrifice, sodomy, suicide and even … murder!” In real life, that magazine was one of many influential media outlets that gave credence to fears about the role ...
Satan's Last Fling
In “Satan’s Last Fling,” Dr. Stanley shares with us John’s vision of Jesus giving authority to His angel to bind and imprison Satan in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. During this millennium, ...
Essay: The history of the politics of blasphemy on the Indian subcontinent
Alleged blasphemy sparked the reactions to Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses in 1988-89 and to former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s recent comments. A look at the significant role that the i ...
Convicted in 1991 as part of ‘Satanic panic,’ San Antonio man may soon get conviction tossed
A San Antonio man who was convicted of indecency of a child and sentenced to 20 years in prison after his young son said his father molested him as part of a twisted Satanic ritual may soon be ...
On Wednesdays, we wear Hellfire Club shirts: "Stranger Things" and the real-life Satanic panic
"The Satanic Bible" was published that same year ... it's hard to think of many games that are more pure. A fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson ...