I’m looking for nonfiction books that discuss the Satanic Panic in any level of depth, especially its rise in the 70s/80s and its connection to other events in the media (McMartin Preschool, West Memphis 3, etc). I read “Unmasking Alice” by Rick Emerson earlier this year and loved it.
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Check out these:
*Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse & the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt* by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker.
*Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory* by Lawrence Wright
*All the Lies They Did Not Tell: The True Story of Satanic Panic in an Italian Community* by Pablo Trincia.
Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt (2002).
And her 2014 follow-up, Dark Spell: Surviving the Sentence.