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The Devil's Game: Luke Gygax on Growing Up Inside the Satanic Panic

Bulletproof vests, death threats, and the night his mother followed a suspicious car

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Jason Van Tatenhove
Apr 24, 2026
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I was ten years old the first time someone handed me a set of polyhedral dice in a basement in Fort Collins.

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I didn’t know what I was walking into. I just knew the room felt different from everywhere else I’d b…

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