Byron StoryAboutbyronstory123@gmail.com

Satanic PanicUniversity of Brighton2023
Satanic Panic was made as part of an assigned brief at university to create a reader  for a subject matter of our choice made up entirely of pre-existing written extracts. I decided to for my project’s goal to be a comprehensive guide of the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons for both the newly initiated and seasoned players, featuring extracted articles both past and present about the moral panic surrounding D&D in 1980s suburban America, the UK, and beyond.

The publication itself was bound in red cloth with a dragon embelished on it's cover. With my typographic and layout design sensibilities inspired both by the early edition D&D handbooks, as well as academic journals/ periodical newspapers, where misinformation of the game and it's playerbase was ripe. The book is bound, glued, and sewn in a fitting red by me.

The greatest challenge posed by this brief was constructing a narrative out of the ordering of the extracts in a way that would be cohesive to a reader despite the various different authors. But with time editing the text and adjusting compostionally in Indesign, the results ended up quite successful.