Notes
“The truth about the dungeon master who disappeared in the steam tunnels”
Jason Louv writes about James Dallas Egbert III, who seemed to have disappeared in Michigan State University’s steam tunnels in 1979 and who became the focus of a panic about Dungeons & Dragons. “When Egbert vanished, his parents hired William Dear, a private detective, to locate him. Dear theorized that it was Egbert’s involvement in D&D that led to his disappearance; he went on to investigate the game himself, even going so far as to play a session.”
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Tagged as: 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, biography, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, history, James Dallas Egbert III, Jason Louv, LARP, Michigan, Michigan State University, Midwest, Satanic Panic, Satanism, USA
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Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
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