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COC Call of Cthulhu Hardcover Rulebook -- $32.00 Horror Roleplaying in the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft. The Great Old Ones ruled the Earth aeons before the incidental rise of humankind. They came from the gulfs of space, waged war upon one another, and then were cast own by even greater beings. Remains of their cyclopean cities and forbidden knowledge can still be found in the remote extremes of our planet. Upon uncharted islands, within dark ocean depths, under burning desert sands, locked within polar ice, miles below the Earth’s crust they lay imprisoned. But when the stars are right they will awaken and walk this Earth once more. Call of Cthulhu is Chaosium’s classic roleplaying game of Lovecraftian horror in which ordinary people are confronted by the terrifying and alien forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. Call of Cthulhu uses Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying System, easy to learn and quick to play. The new sixth edition hardback edition is completely compatible with all previous supplements for Call of Cthulhu. Some sections of the book have been corrected and clarified, and the book includes some new interior art as well as incorporating the layout from our Origins Award winning Call of Cthulhu 20th Anniversary edition. This is a complete roleplaying game in one volume. All you need to play is this book, some dice, imagination, and your friends. 320 page hardcover. Regular price $39.95. COC 1920s Investigator's Companion -- $16.80 An Essential Guide for Players. When faced with the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos, investigators need all the help that they can get. This essnetial player's aid for Call of Cthulhu provides it. The 1920s Investigator's Companion is split into four sections. "The Roaring Twenties" details life in the 1920s, from a general historical overview to listing of favorite songs, books, and films of the era. "On Becoming An Investigator" details the trials of becoming an investigator, offers 140 different occupations, and annotates the use of skills in the 1920s. "The Tools of the Trade" lists resources investigators may use for research, describes various forms of transport and transportation, and also catalog other equipment and weapons. "Words of Wisdom" brings the book to a conclusion by offering advice to the intrepid investigator. Now, for the first time, everything a 1920s investigator needs is gathered in one place. 128 page paperback. Regular price $20.95. COC Bermuda Triangle $13.60 A Paradise of Beauty and Horror. What secrets lie within the Devil's Triangle? Why was the Mary Celeste abandoned after it passed through the triangle's waters? What caused the disappearance of an entire flight of Avengers in 1945? Why do electronics fail in the triangle for no apparent reason? Now, the answers can at last be revealed. The Bermuda Triangle is a 1990s sourcebook centered around the famous mystery of the Devil's Triangle. It acts as a guidebook to the entire Caribbean region, detailing not only Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and other nearby islands, but also exposing the mysteries of Rha'thylla, the Sargasso Sea, and more. Guidelines are included for running entire Caribbean campaigns. The book concludes with "The Privateer's Diary", a scenario. 96 page paperback. Regular price $16.95. COC Cthulhu Dark Ages -- $19.20 A New Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game. The Dark Ages world is filled with life, death, and the pain of old age. Vengeful hordes wash across the world. Petty warlords fight among themselves like ravenous dogs. Disease runs rampant. Illiterate city-folk and simple farmers dread that which lurks in the dark. And in the greatest abbeys, a few know of forbidden books that speak of blasphemy and of those who would destroy the world of god-fearing men and women. "The living close the eyes of the dead, but it is the dead that open the eyes of the living." -- Old Slavic saying 950 A.D.-- The Byzantine Theodorus Philetas translates the al-Azif into Greek and renames it the Necronomicon. It will be more than a century before this blasphemous tome is finally condemned, and most copies destroyed. During these hundred years, when manuscript copies of the Necronomicon covertly pass from hand to hand, mankind almost yields to the uncaring forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. The dark young of Shub-Niggurath infest the boundless forests, mi-go guard mountain passes, ghouls and miri-nigri haunt forgotten burial grounds, and deep ones plague coastal settlements. In this world the last magi explore powers not meant for humans, and are lured to into the abode of Yog-Sothoth. CTHULHU DARK AGES is a complete roleplaying game, using the intuitive and flexible Basic Roleplaying System used and developed by Chaosium for many years and is also used in our Call of Cthulhu game. If you know how to play one, you can play the other. CTHULHU DARK AGES presents the era of the Dark Ages (c. 1000 A.D.) and the continuing threat posed by denizens of the Cthulhu Mythos as described by H. P. Lovecraft, the Lovecraft circle of writers, and the works of Chaosium Inc. 176 page paperback. Regular price $23.95. COC Day Of The Beast -- $16.00 Forebodings of Doom. The classic "Fungi from Yuggoth" campaign revised, with three new introductory adventures. Four thousand years in the past a dying priest uttered a vengeful prophecy. Now, a renowned psychic has begun to see visions of a dark and terrifying future. Strange events will take investigators across first the United States, then the globe, with stops in Romania, Peru, England, and Egypt. 128 page paperback. Regular price $19.95. COC H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands -- $28.00 Roleplaying Beyond the Veil of Sleep. We all dream . . . For some, dreams can become reality. H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands provides everything needed for Call of Cthulhu or Cthulhu Dark Ages investigators to travel down the seven hundred steps, through the Gates of Deeper Slumber, and into the realm of dreams. Includes a travelogue of the Dreamlands, a huge gazetteer, Dreamlands character creation rules, over thirty prominent NPC's, over 60 monsters dwelling within the Dreamlands, descriptions of the Dreamlands gods and their cults, six adventures to help jump start a Dreamlands campaign, and a new fold out map of the Dreamlands by Andy Hopp. Includes the adventures "Pickmans Student", "The Lemon Sails", "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream", "Season of the Witch", "The Land of Lost Dreams", and "Captives of Two Worlds". 256 page hardcover with fold out map. Regular price $34.95. COC Utatti Asfet -- $12.00 The Eye of Wicked Sight. The Graham Westlake Foundation sponsors the International Symposium on Unexplained Phenomena. This year the fortieth annual symposium takes place in the Pacific island-nation of Tonga. The investigators are among the attendees. There they encounter evidence of phenomena they know only too well. They begin an investigation that leads them to cults, confusion, mayhem, delicate inquiries, villains foreign and domestic, new magics, horrors undersea, horrors in swamps, and horrors in the sands of the desert. A wide variety of characters and situations enhance a memorable set of adventures. Set in the 1990s, Uttati Asfet is a world-spanning campaign. In it the investigators learn that the Mythos is not their only foe, and that evil can wait a very long time. 160 page paperback. Regular price $14.95. COC Keeper's Companion 1 -- $20.80 Blasphemous Knowledge, Forbidden Secrets, and Handy Information. The Keeper's Companion 1 is an invaluable resource for Call of Cthulhu keepers. New material includes advice for new keepers, a lengthy study of Mythos artifacts, a learned discussion of many occult books, an up-to-the-moment description of every facet of forensic medicine, a thorough revision and expansion of the game skills (including nearly two dozen new ones), and the augmented text of the Keeper's Compendium, somewhat updated -- forbidden books, secret cults, alien races, and mysterious places. Additional short essays and features round out this book. Second Printing. "13 Suggestions for Keepers" -- Common sense and sly applications to improve your games. "Occult Books" -- More than 60 occult books and references summarized, often including titles of individual chapters. "Languages and Scripts" -- A quick guide to when languages and language forms existed. "Arcane Antiquities" -- More than 20 items and artifacts not gathered in the rulesbook, taken from stories and scenarios, background, pertinent stats, mechanics. "Secret Cults" -- Antagonists, allies, and scholars who know too much for safety or sanity. "Forensic Medicine" -- the science and techniques of death investigation, past and present, in cogent detail. "Alien Races, Mysterious Places" -- two short chapters concerning special mysteries of the Mythos, from deep ones and voormis to Atlantis, Yuggoth, and beyond. "Skills, Expansions, New Skills" -- fresh discussion of skill applications, coverages, and how some skills relate for more than 80 skills. Plus Good Cthulhu Hunting, An Alternate Resistance Table, Feverish Study, Law Enforcement Timeline, Circumstances of Death by State, Brainstorming, Books and Sanity, Alternate Rules, updated Investigator's Sheet, and more. 208 page paperback. Regular price $25.95. COC Keeper's Companion 2 -- $19.20 Prohibition, Firearms, Tomes & Creatures. New to Call of Cthulhu? A battle-scarred veteran of many campaigns? Here are essential background articles useful to most keepers. "The History Behind Prohibition" is a lengthy article bringing anti-alcohol advocates, law enforcement, gangsters, rum-runners, and consumers into focus. Lots of good stories. "The Keeper's Master List of Call of Cthulhu Scenarios" -- has alphabetical lists by the following topics: scenario era; creature / maniacs / great old ones; legendary heroes and villains; cults / sects / secret societies; Mythos tomes; fictitious locations; and Mythos books from publishers other than Chaosium. "Iron: a Survey of Civilian Small Arms Used in the 1890's, 1920's, and the Present" describes practicalities of firearms; common malfunctions; new skills handloading and gunsmithing, firearms considered likely to be encountered or thought specially useful by investigators, insightful discussions of nine specific rifles, five shotguns, ten handguns, a sniper rifle, and the Thompson submachine gun. Hot load damage values for most weapons, along with comparative ratings for noise, maintenance, powder, reloading per round, and more, plus standard stats. "Medical Examiner's Report" discusses the unusual corpse recovered by the Essex County Sheriff's Department, as does "Dr. Lippincot's Diary" from another point of view. Also a short article on deep one / human reproduction. Brian Sammon's "Mythos Collector" submits write-ups for the Book of Iod, Chronike von Nath, Confessions of the Mad Monk Clinthanus, Letters of Nestar, The Nyhargo Codex, Soul of Chaos, Testament of Carnamago, The Tunneler Below, Visions From Yaddith, Von denen Verdammten, as well as for more than a dozen new spells. "Mythos ex Machina" gathers about forty examples of alien technology from Cthulhu supplements. Gordon Olmstead-Dean outlines the odd connections between H. P. Lovecraft and the Satanists HPL never knew, in "LaVey, Satanism, and the Big Squid". 168 page paperback. Regular price $23.95. COC Keeper's Screen -- $12.00 An Array of Aids for the Call of Cthulhu Keeper. Call of Cthulhu keepers (Keepers of Forbidden Lore) can now keep their secrets in style. This new three panel Keeper's Screen is jam-packed with vital GM information presented in any easy to use at a glance format. The player's side of the screen features awesome Philippe Caza artwork worthy of its own sanity check. This product includes a new introductory scenario perfect for beginning investigators and keepers alike, as well as three 4-page game aids (weapons table with an alien weapons section, a new 4-page summary of rule book spells, and some character sheet masters to jump-start your new Call of Cthulhu game). Bi-fold keepers screen, 24 page booklet, cardstock stand-up resistance table, 4 page spot rules for combat, 4 page forms, and 4 page selected spells. Regular price $14.95. COC Last Rites -- $12.00 Sinister Visitations in the Present-Day. " You have displeased me. You have insulted me. You have angered me. Jerinnana is angered on my behalf. Great Pazzuzu is angered. You are to die. You are to die. Our Curse is upon you." -- translated cuneiform verse from a mysterious stone tablet -- Four challenging horrors for today. A book of wretched poetry, an incautious summoning, a Satanic coven, and a house with a suspicious history are the basic ingredients. Useful as stand-alone adventures, or for a change of pace when inserted into an ongoing campaign. Though suitable for beginning player characters, these adventures are dangerous, and incautious beginners will come to regret rash decisions. Includes the adventures Last Rites (the death of retired professor Henry Ennis brings family and friends to the small town of Runville Massachusetts. New funerals and mystery soon follow), Lethal Legacy (an ordinary mummy has been stolen from the Miskatonic University in Arkham. Something stalks the snow covered countryside), The House on Mckinley Boulevard within an abandoned house, evil lurks awaiting the unwary), and The Priestess (when a less than talented poet is ridiculed by his publishers, he seeks vengeance. But there is much more to this murder than meets the eyes, and who knows what horror may reach out across time and space when blood is spilled). 64 page paperback. Regular price $14.95. COC Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood -- $22.40 A Severn Valley Sourcebook and Open Campaign. "The castle came into view as I turned the corner and left behind me a row of untenanted cottages. It was set on the crest of a hill, three walls still standing, though the roof had long ago collapsed. A lone tower stood like a charred finger against the pale sky, and I momentarily wondered if this were the tower around whose window bats had clustered so long ago." -- Ramsey Campbell, "The Room in the Castle" -- This large, profusely illustrated book collects nearly everything known about the Lovecraftian-style universe which famous horror author Ramsey Campbell set in England's West Country. Reference chapters include Books and Artifacts, Cults, a lengthy Denizens chapter, Magic, and orientation material for Britain and the U.K., and for Campbell Country itself -- the Severn Valley. The eight scenarios are organized into a loose campaign which can be followed or not, as the keeper wishes. Among the places visited are Brichester, Mercy Hill, Lower Brichester, Lake Brichester, Temphill, Severnford, and of course Goatswood. Contains The Campbell Mythos by Scott David Aniolowski, Campbell Country: Goatswood Gazetteer by Gary Sumpter, Scott Aniolowski and Divers Hands, and Britain and the United Kingdom by Scott David Aniolowski, Mike Mason, and Alan Glover. Also includes the adventures "The Windthrope Legacy" by Scott David Aniolowski, "Gothic" by Richard Watts, "Silent Scream" by Scott David Aniolowski, "Cross My Heart, Hope to Die" by J. Todd Kingrea, "The Watcher Out of Time" by Clifton Ganyard, "Unpleasant Dreams" by Scott David Aniolowski and Gary Sumpter, "Blessed Be" by Gary Sumpter, "Of Dreams and Dark Waters" by Rob Malkovich, and "Third Time's the Charm" by Steve Spisak. 248 page paperback. Regular price $27.95. COC Resection of Time -- $9.60 The Strange Case of Kyle Woodson. At first, the death of successful archaeologist Kyle Woodson seemed an accident, an autombile crash turned fatal. When certain medical irregularities became apparent, and then the body was quickly cremated, the case became much more sinister to trained eyes. In this adventure, the investigators are challenged by the strange case of Kyle Woodson. Inquiries will take them across the United States of the 1990s, from San Francisco, and the Sanbourne Institute for Pacific Studies near Los Angeles, to decaying modern Arkham. In the end, all clues lead to ancient Mayan ruins, deep in Central America. This 64 page scenario book can be played in two to three nights. It contains twenty-five handouts, many featuring genuine Mayan glyphs and annotated translations. Artwork includes many thumbnails, several drawings of Mayan artifacts, and a number of beautiful gray-scale illustrations. 64 page paperback. Regular price $11.95. COC Unseen Masters -- $19.20 Modern Struggles Against Hidden Powers. "Who is among us? Who? I cannot utter a blessing while he is here. I cannot feel one. Where he treads, the earth is parched! Where he breathes, the air is fire! Where he feeds, the food is poison! Where he turns, his glance is lightning! Who is among us? Who?" -- Melmoth the Wanderer -- Three mini-campaigns set in modern New York State lead investigators through serial murder investigations, madness, and into the middle of an ancient conflict between bitter rivals. Along the way investigators will be aided by mysterious allies, face the Cult of the Sacred Light and the Black Brotherhood, and confront immortal horrors beyond time and space. These three scenarios can be combined to form a modern NY state campaign. 216 page paperback. Regular price $23.95. COC Adventures in Arkham Country -- $16.00 Five Classic Adventures Set in Lovecraft Country. "...there were little hillside farms; sometimes with all the buildings standing, sometimes with only one or two, and sometimes with only a lone chimney or fast-filling cellar. Weeds and briers reigned, and furtive wild things rustled in the undergrowth. Upon everything was a haze of restlessness and oppression; a touch of the unreal and the grotesque, as if some vital element of perspective of chiaroscuro went awry. I did not wonder that the foreigners would not stay, for this was no region to sleep in." -- H.P. Lovecraft -- There is, in the state of Massachusetts, a valley along a river called the Miskatonic. It is shunned by its neighbors, for it's cities are the focus of many dark legends. Dream-filled Kingsport, decadent Dunwich, Falcon Point, witch-haunted Arkham, and ruined Innsmouth are all spoken of only in whispers lest one be overheard. Few realize that the whispered legends of the Miskatonic Valley hide truths more sinister yet. Within this book you will find five adventures running the length of the Miskatonic Valley. Investigators can visit Arkham, Bolton, Dunwich, Falcon Point, Kingsport, and even the Dreamlands. Ancient temples, degenerate deep ones, strange disappearances, and a murderous sorcerer are just some of the perils travelers in Arkham Country will face. 128 page paperback. Regular price $19.95. COC Dead Reckonings -- $12.00 Mysteries of a Haunted Landscape. "Then he went back to Arkham, the terrible witch-haunted town of his forefathers in New England, and had experiences in the dark, amidst the hoary willows and tottering gambrel roofs, which made him seal forever certain pages in the diary of a wild-minded ancestor." -- Howard Lovecraft, "The Silver Key" -- Nearly every town and village in the Miskatonic Valley has its own shadowy past, and many of these places are still plagued by sinister revenants of those dark days. Yet new mysteries also appear with uncanny regularity. It would seem that Lovecraft Country will always be a haunted landscape. Dead Reckonings is an anthology of Call of Cthulhu scenarios set in Howard Lovecraft's haunted New England. Set in Arkham, Dunwich, and the small village of Martin's Beach, these adventures span the spectrum of terror. Herein the dead walk, shadowy cults clash with monstrous forces, and an abomination waits to be reborn into something even worse. 80 page paperback. Regular price $14.95. COC H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham -- $23.20 Unveiling the Legend-Haunted City. "Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town . . . the changeless, legend-haunted city of Arkham, with its clustering gambrel roofs that sway and sag over attics where witches hid from the King's men in the dark, olden days of the Province. "It was always a very bad time in Arkham . . . ." -- H. P. Lovecraft -- Arkham is a small town along the Massachusetts coast, the setting favored by author Howard Phillips Lovecraft in his tales of monstrous horror. All in all a quiet place, Arkham is best-known as the home of Miskatonic University, an excellent school becoming known for its esoteric and disturbing volumes residing in its library's Restricted Collection. These tomes form the foundation of all current efforts to thwart the dire desires of the Mythos legion. H. P. Lovecraft's Arkham contains extensive background information about this haunted New England town-written to be used by serious investigators as a base from which to further explore the mysteries of the Cthulhu Mythos. Pertinent buildings, useful people, and important locations are described in depth, and four thrilling adventures complete the package. Includes the H.P. Lovecraft short story "The Dreams in the Witch-house". Fully compatible with both Call of Cthulhu from Chaosium Inc. and Call of Cthulhu d20 edition. Includes the Arkham Advertiser issue for Oct. 11, 1928 248 page paperback with Arkham Town Map and 4 page Arkham Advertiser. Regular price $28.95. COC H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich -- $20.80 Return to the Forgotten Village. For classic Call of Cthulhu and d20 Cthulhu. Dunwich is a small village located along the Miskatonic, upriver from Arkham. Until 1806, Dunwich was a thriving community, boasting many mills and the powerful Whateley family. Those among the Whateleys came to know dark secrets about the world, and they fell into the worship of unwholesome creatures from other times and places. Retreating to the hills and forests surrounding the town, they betrayed their uncorrupted kin. Prosperity fled, and a dark despair seized the people. What remains is a skeleton town, mills closed, its citizens without hope or future. However, secrets of the Mythos survive, to be discovered by brave and enterprising investigators. H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich begins with "The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft's masterful tale of life in the town and its surrounds. It expands upon the story with extensive information about the town: pertinent buildings, useful people, and important locations are described in detail. A 17x22" map depicts the area for miles around, and two scenarios are included. All statistics and gameplay notes for d20 Cthulhu are also provided. 192 page paperback with Dunwich Region Map and d20 Cthulhu Character Stat Appendix. Regular price $25.95. COC H.P. Lovecraft's Kingsport -- $20.80 City In The Mist. "In the morning, mist comes up from the sea by the cliffs beyond Kingsport. White and feathery it comes from the deep to its brothers the clouds, full of dreams of dank pastures and caves of leviathan. And later, in the still summer rains on the steep roofs of poets, the clouds scatter bits of those dreams, that men shall not live without rumor of old strange secrets, and wonders that planets tell planets alone in the night." -- H. P. Lovecraft -- Kingsport is a coastal town located a morning's stroll from Arkham. Draped in mists and fog, it is home to artists and fishermen, sailors and dreamers. Here dreams and reality mingle to an unsettling degree. Some find solace in such dreams; others find only terror and death. Charles Baxter's dreams drove him to despair. He took his own life, throwing himself into the sea. The only clues to his demise: a water-soaked collection of poems. Horrors exist in the real world of Kingsport as well, remnants of an ancient witch-cult that once infested the town. Unspeakable things crawl through their burrows beneath Central Hill and lurk in the fog off Jersey Reef, preying on fishermen and unsuspecting tourists alike. Kingsport's soothing atmosphere and beautiful setting beckons to vacationers. Its perch on the brink of the dream-world inspires artists. Investigators come to Kingsport to find understanding of the dark realms of the Cthulhu Mythos. H. P. Lovecraft's Kingsport describes this fabled Massachusetts town in meticulous detail-its important personalities, buildings, history, and its weird people and places. This book also features a fold-out players' map of the town, a tourist brochure describing places of interest, and three adventures with player aids for added realism and enjoyment. Includes the H.P. Lovecraft short storis "The Strange High House In The Mist" and "The Festival". Fully compatible with both Call of Cthulhu from Chaosium Inc. and Call of Cthulhu d20 edition. This book contains material previously published as Kingsport: City in the Mists (1991), long out of print. 176 page paperback. 15 x 20" Kingsport Region Map. with brochure from the Kingsport city council and d20 Cthulhu Character Stat Appendix. Regular price $25.95. COC Disciples of Cthulhu 2 -- $11.20 Blasphemous Tales of the Followers: New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. "But when he mounted the rickety ladder to the topmost cases and the dusty individual boxes on top of them, he began to realize the full extent of the old wizard's store of infamous lore. Indeed, this had been the object of Fin's lesson, for she often directed him in furtive tones to "inventory" just these regions, when nothing had been ordered from them. There, as he perched on the flimsy ladder glancing frequently at the door where Alligator might appear, he found nothing newer than von Konnenberg's Uralte Schrecken with its plain black leather binding and silver lock; Dr. Dee in a great Elizabethan folio with the royal imprint and a Latin title in gold on the front edge; Ludvig Prinn in brooding black-letter; the much debated Count Cagliostro in a magnificent private edition full of engraved diagrams, decorated in gold filigree, echoed on the edges; a manuscript in Hebrew on parchment enclosed in heavy wooden boards covered with plain leather, with an inscription in French on the front end paper containing the words "Abra-Melin" and "original" . . . every dark soul who had dared the forbidden arts for centuries was there, in the original or in translation. And the old man's trove did not stop there. The boxes on the top contained manuscripts and incised clay tablets at which Nathan could only shudder. Fiona referred to these as Alistair's trading stock; in his unseen chambers he had copies of everything here that he considered of value and more that he would never sell to any public institution. " -- Walter C. DeBill, Jr., "The Bookseller's Second Wife" -- Bad things tend happen to people who go where they are not wanted, or who over-stay their welcome once they reach their destination. This book contains thirteen new personal explorations of the Cthulhu Mythos. Twelve of the stories in Disciples II are original and have never been published before. All the stories record the dire fates of people whose destinies intertwine with the Mythos. 224 page paperback. Regular price $13.95. COC Encyclopedia Cthulhiana -- $14.40 A Guide to Lovecraftian Horror. IMPROVED 2nd. EDITION -- Now featuring pronunciations for many Mythos names. The Cthulhu Mythos was first created by H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), a Providence author considered by many to be the finest horror story writer of the twentieth century. Lovecraft's tales are a blend of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, with the latter being especially prominent. His tales describe a pantheon of powerful beings known as the Great Old Ones. Since Lovecraft's time the Cthulhu Mythos has grown exponentially, until it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of, even for devoted fans. Many writers have contributed to it, including Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Brian Lumley, and Stephen King. This book is the first major attempt in many years to provide a comprehensive guide to H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. This new second edition of Encyclopedia Cthulhiana has been extensively revised and contains over a hundred and fifty additional pages and scores of new entries. New features includes thumbnail illustrations of the most important signs and symbols and a timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos spanning billions of years. Many entries have been revised to reflect our latest understanding of the Mythos, and the infamous Necronomicon appendix has been greatly expanded. Also present for the first time is "A Brief History of the Cthulhu Mythos", which examines the evolution of the genre from the 1920s to today. 448 page paperback. Regular price $17.95 COC Nameless Cults -- $12.80 The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard. "Von Junzt spent his entire life (1795-1840) delving into forbidden subjects; he traveled in all parts of the world, gained entrance into innumerable secret societies, and read countless little known and esoteric books and manuscripts in the original; and in the chapters of the Black Book, which range from startling clarity of exposition to murky ambiguity, there are statements and hints to freeze the blood of a thinking man. Reading what Von Junzt dared put in print arouses uneasy speculations as to what it was that he dared not tell. What dark matters, for instance, were contained in those closely written pages that formed the unpublished manuscript on which he worked unceasingly for months before his death, and which lay torn and scattered all over the floor of the locked and bolted chamber in which Von Junzt was found dead with the marks of taloned fingers on his throat? It will never be known, for the author's closest friend, the Frenchman Alexis Ladeau, after having spent a whole night piecing the fragments together and reading what was written, burnt them to ashes and cut his own throat with a razor." -- Robert E. Howard, "The Black Stone" -- Robert E. Howard is the world-renowned author of the Conan series and the stories that were the basis of the movie Kull. He frequently corresponded with H.P. Lovecraft, and authored many pivotal Mythos tales. This book collects together all of Howard's Mythos tales, including those which originated Gol-Goroth, the Black Book (Unaussprechlichen Kulten), and Friedrich Von Junzt -- all the stories that are usually considered his Cthulhu Mythos yarns, plus another batch that make use of Arthur Machen's lore of the Little People and help fill out the picture implicit in a couple of the overt Mythos tales. A third group are tales which Howard did not intend in a Lovecraftian vein but which feature creation later assimilated into the Mythos, whether by Howard, Lovecraft, or later writers. Four Howard fragments are presented here with additional text by yours truly, C.J. Henderson, Joe Pulver, and August Derleth. 384 page paperback. Regular price $15.95 COC Singers of Strange Songs -- $10.40 A Celebration of Brian Lumley -- Eleven New Tales of Horror. Most readers acknowledge Brian Lumley as the superstar of British horror writers. With the great popularity of his Necroscope series, he is one of the best-known horror authors in the world. Devoted fans know that his roots are deep in the Cthulhu Mythos, with which most of his early work deals. This volume contains eleven new tales in that vein, as well as three reprints of excellent but little-known work by Mr. Lumley. This book is published in conjunction with his apperance as Guest of Honor at NecronomiCon. "I was told stories of fabulous star-born creatures who inhabited the Earth millions of years before man appeared and who were still here, in certain dark places, when he eventually evolved . . . I was told of sacrifices to Yog-Sothoth and Yibb-Tstll that would make your blood run cold and of weird rites practised beneath prehistoric skies before the old Egypt was born." -- Brian Lumley, "Cement Surroundings" -- 256 page paperback. Regular price $12.95. COC Song of Cthulhu -- $11.20 Tales of the Spheres Beyond Sound. "We didn't really know who he was or what he was, but he told us he came from the Land of Pyramids a long time ago, and sometimes when we walked through the streets of Little Five Points . . . towel-heads and Rastafarians would drop to their knees before him and call out in strange languages, as if praying before a deity of unparalleled power. Even the hardcore punkers -- with their freakish mohawks, their tattoos and piercings, with their army boots and their Charles Manson T-shirts -- even they would pause from their demands for spare change and cigarettes, watching with a curious sort of respect whenever Nyarlathotep walked by." -- Gregory Nicoll "How Nyarlathotep Rocked Our World" -- Lovecraft's most famous portraitist was Richard Upton Pickman, whose ironic canvases of ghouls and humanity's relation to ghouls have become famous, even thought they existed only in Lovecraft's keen imagination. Among HPL's writers, Randolph Carter and the tragically destined Edward Pickman Derby stand out. And of course there is Erich Zann, the inhumanly-great violist, whose powers are detailed in "The Music of Erich Zann", included in this volume. In H.P. Lovecraft, the artist is the detached observer of society, a cultural reporter of the sort whose function has since become familiar. But Lovecraft also saw a deeper role, one such as played by Henry Wilcox the sculptor in " The Call of Cthulhu": "Wilcox's imagination had been keenly affected (He had) an unprecedented dream of great cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror . . . (and) a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, Cthulhu fhtagn." 240 page paperback. Regular price $13.95. COC The Book of Dzyan -- $11.20 The Known Text -- The Secret Doctrine -- Additional Sources -- A Life of Mme. Blavatsky. "The Stanzas, therefore, give an abstract formula which can be applied, mutatis mutandis, to all evolution: to that of our tiny earth, to that of the chain of planets of which that earth forms one, to the solar Universe to which that chain belongs, and so on, in an ascending scale, till the mind reels and is exhausted in the effort. "The seven Stanzas given in this volume represent the seven terms of this abstract formula. They refer to, and described the seven great stages of the evolutionary process, which are spoken of in the Purânas as the 'Seven Creations' and in the Bible as the Days of Creation." -- Proem, The Secret Doctrine -- Mme. Blavatsky's famous transcribed messages from beyond, the mysterious Book of Dzyan, the heart of the sacred books of Kie-te, are said once to have been known only to Tibetan mystics. Quotations from Dzyan form the core of her closely- argued The Secret Doctrine, the most influential single book of occult knowledge to emerge from the last century. The text of the book reproduces nearly all of Book of Dzyan that Blavatsky transcribed. It also includes long excerpts from her Secret Doctrine as well as from the Society of Psychical Research's 1885 report concerning phenomena witnessed by members of the Theosophical Society. There are notes and additional shorter materials. Editor Maroney's biographical essay starts off the book, a fascinating portrait of an amazing woman. 272 page paperback. Regular price $13.95. COC The Book of Eibon -- $14.40 Histories of the Elder Magi, Episodes of Eibon of Mhu Thulan, Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom, Psalms of the Silent, and the Eibonic Rituals. Tales of lore tell of the Book of Eibon, a tome so ancient that it was originally written in the Hyperborean language of Tsath-Yo, long before Atlantis was born from the sea. It goes by dozens of names and predates even the Necronomicon and Unaussprechlichen Kulten. Now, Chaosium reveals the true secrets of the Book of Eibon for the first time. The contents of the Book of Eibon are primarily the work of Clark Ashton Smith, one of the most famous authors of Weird Tales and the inventor of the Book of Eibon, as well as Lin Carter, esteemed fantasy and horror editor. Robert Price, Richard Tierney, Joseph Pulver, and a number of other authors have helped complete the text, resulting in a tome that reveals all the secrets of the Cthulhu Mythos, from the history of the first alien races to come to Earth, to the histories of the Elder Magi of Hyperborea, and the and the story of Eibon's life and death. 438 page paperback. Regular price $17.95. COC The White People & Other Stories -- $12.00 The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen Volume 2. Born in Wales in 1863, Machen was a London journalist for much of his life. Among his fiction, he may be best known for the allusive, haunting title story of this book, "The White People", which H. P. Lovecraft thought to be the second greatest horror story ever written (after Blackwood's "The Willows"). This wide ranging collection also includes the crystalline novelette "A Fragment of Life", "The Angel of Mons", (a story so widely reported that it was imagined true by millions in the grim initial days of the Great War), and "The Great Return", telling of the stately visions which graced the Welsh village of Llantristant for a time. Four more tales and the poetical "Ornaments in Jade" are all finely told. 312 page paperback. Regular price $14.95. |
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