Ralif Redhammer
Legend
If a person wants to understand the Satanic Panic, I think it's important to read the primary sources of the time - Dear's The Dungeon Master, Pulling's infamous BADD pamphlet and The Devil's Web, Weldon's Playing With Fire. It's easy to write off the bizarre stuff like people claiming that they heard the demons in D&D books screaming when they burned the books. But the Satanic Panic was arguably at its most dangerous when it presented itself as something reasonable, something logical. The aforementioned Playing With Fire puts on a veneer of scholarly even-handedness when its conclusion was made before the book was even written. Pulling and Radecki spoke as (self-appointed) "experts" to police, parents, teachers, courts.