Below is a list of books and papers to help aid you in researching, learning, or collating knowledge about the satanic panic of the 1980’s and 1990’s. It includes both satanic panic as well as its entry into satanic ritual abuse.
Books
Corupe, P. and Janisse, K. (2016). Satanic panic: pop-cultural paranoia in the 1980s. Godalming: Fab Press.
Dear, W. (1991). The dungeon master: the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III. London: Bloomsbury.
Ellis, B. (2014). Raising the Devil. University Press of Kentucky.
Emerson, R. (2022). Unmask Alice: LSD, satanic panic, and the imposter behind the world’s most notorious diaries. Dallas, Tx: Benbella Books.
Laycock, J. (2015). Dangerous games: what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Nathan, D. and Snedeker, M. (2001). Satan’s silence : ritual abuse and the making of a modern american witch hunt. San Jose Calif.Etc.: Authors Choice Press.
Richardson, J.T., Best, J. and Bromley, D.G. (1991). The satanism scare. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.
Smith, M. and Pazder, L. (1981). Michelle Remembers. New York: Pocket Books, 1981; Markham, Ont.: PaperJacks.
Victor, J.S. (1993). Satanic panic: the creation of a contemporary legend. Chicago: Open Court.
Papers
‘The Satanic Panic’ (2019) Skeptic, 24(1), pp. 70–71.
Andrade, G. and Redondo, M.S.C. (2019) ‘Satanism and Psychopathology: Some Historical Cases’, Journal of Psychohistory, 47(2), pp. 126–143.
Baumeister, R.F. and Sommer, K.L. (1997) ‘Patterns in the bizarre: Common themes in satanic ritual abuse, sexual masochism, UFO abductions, factitious illness, and extreme love’, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 16(2), pp. 213–223.
Beard, D. (2015) ‘Horror Movies at Home: Supernatural Horror, Delivery Systems and 1980s Satanic Panic’, Horror Studies, 6(2), pp. 211–223.
Beetstra, T.A. (2011) ‘The Legendary Character of Satanic Ritual Abuse in Dispute’, Contemporary Legend: The Journal of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, 1(3), pp. 160–177.
Bennett, G. (1991) ‘Satanic Ritual Abuse in the United Kingdom: A Checklist of Newspaper Reports, II: The Rochdale and Nottingham Affairs’, FOAFtale News, 23, pp. 7–11.
Bennett, G., Hobbs, S. and Ellis, B. (1991) ‘Satanic Ritual Abuse in the United Kingdom: A Checklist of Newspaper Reports in England and Scotland, III: The Orkney Islands Ritual Abuse Case Continued’, FOAFtale News, 24, pp. 1–4.
Bottoms, B. L., & Davis, S. L. (1997). The creation of satanic ritual abuse. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 16(2), 112-132.
Bottoms, B.L., Diviak, K.R. and Davis, S.L. (1997) ‘Jurors’ reactions to satanic ritual abuse allegations’, Child Abuse & Neglect, 21, pp. 845–859.
Byers, A. (2016) ‘The Satanic Panic and Dungeons & Dragons: A Twenty-Five-Year Retrospective’, in Byers, A. and Crocco, F. (eds) The Role-Playing Society: Essays on the Cultural Influence of RPGs. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Publishing, pp. 22–45.
Clarke, M. (2018) ‘Texas Couple Wrongly Convicted in “Satanic Panic” Receive $3.4 Million’, Prison Legal News, 29(8), pp. 26–27.
Cleary, S. (2022) ‘Better the Devil You Know: The Myth of Harm and the Satanic Panic’, Gothic Studies, 24(2), pp. 167–184.
Coons, P.M. (1994) ‘Reports of satanic ritual abuse: further implications about pseudomemories’, Perceptual & Motor Skills, 78, pp. 1376–1378.
deYoung, M. (1994) ‘One Face of the Devil: The Satanic Ritual Abuse Moral Crusade and the Law’, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 12(4), pp. 389–407..
deYoung, M. (1996) ‘A painted devil: Constructing the satanic ritual abuse of children problem’, Aggression and Violent Behavior, 1(3), pp. 235–248.
deYoung, M. (1996) ‘Breeders for Satan: Toward a sociology of sexual trauma.’, Journal of American Culture (01911813), 19(2).
deYoung, M. (1997) ‘Satanic Ritual Abuse in Day Care: An Analysis of 12 American Cases’, Child Abuse Review, 6(2), pp. 84–93.
deYoung, M. (1997) ‘Satanic Ritual Abuse in Day Care–An Update’, Child Abuse Review, 6(4), pp. 240–241.
deYoung, M. (2007) ‘Two Decades After McMartin: A Follow-up of 22 Convicted Day Care Employees’, Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 34(4), pp. 9–33.
Falkof, N. (2012) ‘“Satan has come to Rietfontein”: Race in South Africa’s Satanic Panic’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 38(4), pp. 753–767.
Feldman, G.C. (1995) ‘Satanic ritual abuse: a chapter in the history of human cruelty’, Journal of Psychohistory, 22(3), p. 340.
Frankfurter, D. (2001) ‘Ritual as Accusation and Atrocity: Satanic Ritual Abuse, Gnostic Libertinism, and Primal Murders’, History of Religions, 40(4), p. 352.
Frankfurter, D. (2003) ‘The Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic as Religious-Studies Data’, Numen: International Review for the History of Religions, 50(1), pp. 108–117.
Gelb, J.L. (1993) ‘Multiple personality disorder and satanic ritual abuse’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 27(4), pp. 701–708.
Goodman, G.S., Quas, J.A. and Bottoms, B.L. (1997) ‘Children’s religious knowledge: implications for understanding satanic ritual abuse allegations’, Child Abuse & Neglect, 21, pp. 1111–1130.
Gough, C. (2022). Another man’s memories: Masculine trauma and Satanic Panic in The Believers (1987) and Angel Heart (1987). Horror Studies, 13(2), 193-208.
Hobbs, S. and Ellis, B. (1991) ‘Satanic Ritual Abuse in the United Kingdom: A Checklist of Newspaper Reports in England and Scotland, I: The Orkney Island Case’, FOAFtale News, 22, pp. 1–3.
Hughes, S. (2017) ‘American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000’, Journal of American Studies, 51(3), pp. 691–719.
Laycock, J. (2012) ‘Carnal Knowledge: The Epistemology of Sexual Trauma in Witches’ Sabbaths, Satanic Ritual Abuse, and Alien Abduction Narratives’, Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, 1(1), pp. 100–129.
Leavitt, F. and Labott, S.M. (2000) ‘The role of media and hospital exposure on Rorschach response patterns by patients reporting satanic ritual abuse’, American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 18(2), pp. 35–55.
McCulley, D. (1994) ‘Satanic ritual abuse: A question of memory’, Journal of Psychology and Theology, 22(3), pp. 167–172.
McFadyen, A., Hanks, H. and James, C. (1993) ‘Ritual Abuse: A Definition’, Child Abuse Review, 2(1), pp. 35–41.
McMaugh, K. and Middleton, W. (2022) ‘“The History And Politics Of ‘False Memories’: The Australian Experience”’, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 23(2), pp. 177–190.
McShane, C. (1993) ‘Satanic Sexual Abuse: A Paradigm’, Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work, 8(2), pp. 200–212.
Moran, M. (2013). The new Satanic Panic: witch hunting in the internet age. Skeptic (Altadena, CA), 18(4), 12-16.
Ost, J. et al. (2013) ‘Recovered memories, satanic abuse, dissociative identity disorder and false memories in the UK: a survey of Clinical Psychologists and Hypnotherapists’, Psychology, Crime & Law, 19(1), pp. 1–19.
Precin, P. (2011) ‘Return to work: A case of PTSD, dissociative identity disorder, and satanic ritual abuse’, Work, 38(1), pp. 57–66.
Putnam, F.W. (1991) ‘The satanic ritual abuse controversy’, Child Abuse & Neglect, 15(3), pp. 175–179.
Rockwell, R.B. (1994) ‘One psychiatrist’s view of satanic ritual abuse’, The Journal of Psychohistory, 21(4), pp. 443–460.
Ross, M. (2022) ‘Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries’, Booklist, 118(17), p. 7.
Santos, J., Sitters, H. and Kelly, L. (2022) ‘“Satanic worship, sodomy and even murder”: how Stranger Things revived the American satanic panic of the 80s’, Conversation (Conversation Media Group Ltd), p. 1.
Scott, S. (1993) ‘Beyond Belief: Beyond Help? Report on a Helpline Advertised after the Transmission of a Channel 4 Film on Ritual Abuse’, Child Abuse Review, 2(4), pp. 243–250.
Spanos, N.P., Burgess, C.A. and Burgess, M.F. (1994) ‘Past-life identities, UFO abductions, and satanic ritual abuse: The social construction of memories’, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 42(4), pp. 433–446.
Van Benschoten, S.C. (1990) ‘Multiple personality disorder and satanic ritual abuse: The issue of credibility’, Dissociation: Progress in the Dissociative Disorders, 3(1), pp. 22–30.
Victor, J.S. (1996) ‘How should stories about satanic cults be understood?’, Harvard Mental Health Letter, 12(8), p. 8.
Waterhouse, R. T. (2014). Satanic abuse, false memories, weird beliefs and moral panics (Doctoral dissertation, City University London).
Youngson, S.C. (1993) ‘Ritual Abuse: Consequences for Professionals’, Child Abuse Review, 2(4), pp. 251–262.
