Our First Fears
Our First Fears is a podcast hosted by Dan Poblocki featuring discussions about Gateway Horror, past and present, with artists working in the genre today.
Our First Fears
27 - Satanic Panic with Aaron Starmer
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Episode 27 of Our First Fears is a chat with author, Aaron Starmer, about the Satanic Panic of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. We get into our own memories of the cultural paranoia surrounding the supposed existence of murderous cults and the myriad ways talk show hosts and news reports assured us that they would corrupt our young minds . . . and SOULS.
Aaron Starmer is the author of many books for young readers including The Riverman Trilogy, the Locker 37 series, Spontaneous, Night Swimming, and A Million Views. Several of his titles have appeared on best of the year lists from Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, New York Public Library, YALSA, Bank Street College of Education, Chicago Public Library and School Library Journal. His latest, You Are Now Old Enough to Hear this, is available now . . . Find all of Aaron’s books now at your favorite local bookshop.
Dan Poblocki is the bestselling author of the recent novels Tales to Keep You Up at Night and More Tales to Keep You Up at Night, along with Ghost Hunter’s Daughter, Liars’ Room, The Stone Child, The Nightmarys and others. His picture book with James Rey Sanchez, My Brother’s Butt is Haunted, is available now from Penguin Workshop.
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