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Delta Green: Gods Teeth – A Campaign of 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 is genuinely terrifying, with real world terrors that need to be handled with care. The campaign itself rivals…
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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.
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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 speeches in support of the right to vote for women. Their idyll is soon shattered, however, by forces beyond mortal ken. And a pair…
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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 and the prohibition is in full effect, but gangsters and the prohibition agents who hunt them will turn out to be the least of the players problems.
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Chaosium Con Australia: June 8-9
Bridgett returns! Chaosium’s Bridgett Jeffries, last seen on these shores for PAX AUS in 2022, joins Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason and bestselling RuneQuest creator Andrew Logan Montgomery as an International Guest of Honour at Chaosium Con Australia in June.
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The Pale Lady: Fear and Fairytales
Deep in the woods lives a witch called the Pale Lady. She’s not really a witch, though, that’s just what folk say. She’s a faerie queen. Every spring, her man-beasts emerge to abduct the sons of the people. None of them have ever been seen again. Until now.
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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 Dark scenario, set in 1890s rural Scotland, and written by Scott Dorward.
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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. The local mining magnate has been losing sleep due to a series of break-ins and an unsettling encounter with something inhuman. This scenario is a lively and well put-together one-shot that practically runs itself.
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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 the subterranean world of Stockholm, Sweden, which seems to be really unwise, as the same blogger disappeared a…
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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 release his stories or gets what he wants, the use of horror themes blended with comedy and excellent investigative work is a great…
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Cults of Cthulhu: Humanising Cosmic Horror.
Cults of Cthulhu has everything a Keeper needs to use cults in a Call of Cthulhu game. It includes 5 fully realised Cthulhu cults, a method of creating your own, and a thorough background in the history and lore of the Cthulhu Cult.
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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 and side-effects in a way that maximises the feeling of dread. Set in a small mountain town on the US…
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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 with characters. While yes, this doesn’t fit every story, sometimes horror works when it focuses on just one character,…
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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 horror. On another level, limiting the ability of characters to escape pushes them into positions where they can face their fears and…
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Heinrich’s Guide to Carcosa: Love and Death in the Hyades.
Heinrich’s Guide to Carcosa is a solo campaign set in Carcosa, the mysterious city ruled by The King in Yellow. Intended for use with Call of Cthulhu 7th edition rules, it can also be run one-on-one with a Keeper and player.