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Alone Against The Static: Into the Black Hills
There’s just something about isolation in a setting. By separating them from potential sources of help and their connections to the world, it works well to create atmosphere that really adds to the...
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Movie Review: Glorious (2022)
Sometimes in horror, less is more when it comes to increasing the stakes. Having too many characters can add too much clutter to the story and reduce the depth of emotions and character you can explore...
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Initial thoughts – Twin Peaks (1990)
Twin Peaks is a somewhat obscure TV series that draws on detective fiction tropes but mixes it with psychological horror in a way that is iconic. And better yet, it uses offbeat style characters, music...
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Cults of Cthulhu: Humanising Cosmic Horror.
Cults of Cthulhu is one of Chaosium’s more ambitious recent offerings, but what’s it all about? Well, it provides a comprehensive overview of the Cthulhu cult but, perhaps more importantly, gives Call...
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a TV show that focuses on a journalist, who investigates crimes with unlikely causes, which often involves paranormal or strange entities. While Karl often never gets to...
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Tunnel People – A Strange Underworld of Terror
It’s the 2010s and a group of urban explorers (UE) have the opportunity of a lifetime. A blogger has described the location of a strange train station that is more than it appears. So they descend into...
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William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion
William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion is a historical Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1890s Ballarat, a mining town in Australia. William Bailey, the local mining baron, has been losing sleep due to a...
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Fairyland: Cthulhu Dark just got Darker
In the isolated Scottish village of Cullingstone, a young girl disappears every three years. Soon after, the girls return; emotionless, analytical, and supremely intelligent. Fairyland is a Cthulhu...
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The Pale Lady: Fear and Fairytales
Like much of the Lamentations of the Flame Princess corpus, The Pale Lady cannot be pigeonholed into a single, convenient, category. It’s fantasy, it’s adventure, it’s horror. It’s Dungeons and Dragons...
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Chaosium Con Australia: June 8-9
Chaosium Con is coming to sunny Melbourne this year – The Bridgett Jeffries and The Mike Mason will be in attendance. Also The Andrew Logan Montgomery, a Runequest dude. Yay! I’ve never been to one of...
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Blackwater Creek: Top-Shelf Horror
Blackwater creek is a decrepit backwater, festering quietly along the banks of the Miskatonic river in rural Massachusetts. The year is 1926, the prohibition is in full effect, and Blackwater Creek is...
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A Midsummer Night’s Darkness
A Midsummer Night’s Darkness is an unabashedly feminist romp through the wilds of Shropshire in the summer of 1909. A group of Suffragists are caravanning through the region, leafleting and making...
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Call of Cthulhu: Arkham
Call of Cthulhu: Arkham is a triumph, achieving a near-perfect balance between providing fine detail and allowing for Keeper improvisation. It is, all at the same time, a serious game reference, a...
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Gods Teeth – A tale of Fatalistic Terror
God’s Teeth is a campaign that stands out from the rest. It follows a group of agents who are misled into completing a terrible mission by a compromised agent that haunts them for their lives. And it...
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Magic Eater
Lamentations of the Flame Princess is a weird fantasy horror roleplaying system, with an eclectic range of modules. Common themes include gonzo silliness, dark humour, and high-end horror. Horror as a...
View ArticleOn Blackwater Creek and Coca-Cola
Mega spoilers for Blackwater Creek lie herein. If this bothers you, or if you play in my games, you might want to skip this post. If not, read on… I had a ‘what if’ moment while driving to work this...
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Doors To Darkness
Billed as a book of one-shots for new Keepers, Doors to darkness contains 5 short scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, covering a range of themes in a mere 142 pages. But let’s get one thing straight, if...
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The Last Dance of Lola Montez – Call of Cthulhu
The Last Dance of Lola Montez is a modern Scenario for Call of Cthulhu set in the historical mining town of Ballarat, Australia. Clocking in at 43 pages, it contains 5 pre-generated characters and 8...
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The Exhibition of Dread
The Exhibition of Dread is a modern-day one-short scenario for 2-5 players, set at the Boston College of Modern Art. Clocking in at 42 pages, it contains 5 pre-generated characters, a map and 2...
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Hands of Nyarlathotep
Hands of Nyarlathotep is a Call of Cthulhu Supplement from Zgrozy, a Polish publishing house releasing content through the Miskatonic Repository. Clocking in at 14 pages, it’s part of the Devilarium...
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