As the United States shifted with the anxieties of the 1980s, baseless conspiracy theories about satanic cults committing mass abuse spread around the country.

In midlife, several characters cope with the horrific consequences of an occult ritual in which they participated long ago. 'A Dark Matter: A Novel' by Peter Straub - Los Angeles Times ...

The satanic panic of the 1980s has its specific roots in the rise of the Christian right as a powerful political coalition in the 1970s, a backlash to the progressive movements of the 1960s and ...