044 -- The Satanic Panic, Part One: Media At the Crossroads
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Summary
We talk the rise of the Moral Panic Industry and outline the general evolution of the Satanic Panic Complex from its inception in 1971 to one of its most high profile and prototypical cases, the James Dallas Egbert III disappearance. Part Two will cover the Gary Lauwers Murder to the McMartin Preschool Trial and the mid 80s pivot from Satanism to gangs, Gangster Rap, and the Parent’s Music Resource Center Hearings.
Source List
Online Sources: D&D and the Satanic Panic
https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046
This is from an evangelical comic booklet series you have probably seen before
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/us/when-dungeons-dragons-set-off-a-moral-panic.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105
https://www.retroreport.org/video/dd-lessons-from-a-media-panic/
A few books I found available as e-books on scribd and other places:
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who
By David M. Ewalt
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds by Joseph P. Laycock
Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons
By Michael Witwer
Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe (the book the Hanks movie is based on)
https://archive.org/details/mazesmonstersnov00jaff
Rise of the dungeon master: Gary Gygax and the creation of D&D by David Kushner and Koren Shadmi
Satanic Panic
Fantasyland: How America went Haywire: a 500-year History by Kurt Andersen
