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American Hellfire: Cults, Killings, Possessions, and Hoaxes of the Satanic Age

By (author) Carlos Acevedo

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Cannibalism. Ritual murders. Cults. Blood rites. Possessions. Human trafficking. At a time when Ronald Reagan promised optimism, America found itself gripped by a widespread mania: the fear that devil worshippers were rising from a demonic underground to commit unspeakable acts of violence and mayhem. For more than a decadeâ€”from the early 1980s to the mid-1990sâ€”America suffered through what is now infamously known as the â€œSatanic Panic.â€ Primed by the Occult-tinged â€™60s, when Anton LaVey founded the Church of Satan, Roman Polanski shocked the public with Rosemary's Baby, and the Manson Family became shorthand for evil, the Satanic Panic eventually grew into a national obsession. Â Across the country, crimes both real and imagined, ranging from human sacrifices, multiple murders, and Satanic Ritual Abuse dominated mass media coverage. Serial killers such as David Berkowitz, â€œThe Son of Sam,â€ who terrorized New York City in the late 1970s, the â€œChicago Ripperâ€ crew, allegedly run by a flesh-eating devil worshiper and â€œThe Night Stalker,â€ Richard Ramirez, whose bloodlust seemed unquenchable, fueled fears of a war for the soul of America against the forces of darkness. Â In American Hellfire, Carlos Acevedo traces the roots of Satanic Panic from its beginnings as a pop-culture phenomenon to the sociological factors that reached critical mass in the 1980s.Â Along the way, the notorious crimes attributed to Satanismâ€”including the daycare hysteria that saw dozens of innocent people indicted for atrocities they never committedâ€”are revisited, as well as the hoaxes, tragedies, and conspiracy theories of an era whose nightmarish anxieties never truly went away.Â

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