Fantasy Flight Games: Preview of the Undimensioned and Unseen Mythos Pack for Arkham Horror: The Card Game.
Science will fail you. Weapons will fail you. Your whole concept of reality will fail you. There is, in fact, nothing you can do prior to the adventure to prepare yourself for your encounters with its hideous monsters. All you can do is keep your eyes open for any solution that might present itself.
Gotta love that.
Chaosium has released their new guidelines for fiction submissions and RPG submissions.
Currently, the Chaosium fiction line primarily features works centered on the Cthulhu Mythos. The Mythos was the line’s core when it launched in 1993 and it will be the core of our relaunched line starting in 2018. We may publish other types of work from time to time and may expand the line in the future, but for submission purposes, we’re considering Mythos works.
Antient Dreams is a forthcoming chapbook in a very limited print run, containing some of W. H. Pugmire’s older work, content list here. Also from Pugmire, a rewritten version of “The Zanies of Sorrow,” which will appear in a new anthology edited by S. T. Joshi, called Apostles of the Weird.
And speaking of Joshi, his latest update includes his two most recent books: Varieties of the Weird Tale and The Ghost in the Corner and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany, edited by Joshi and Martin Andersson.
George R. R. Martin has announced that he will fund a Horror-writing scholarship for the Odyssey Writing Workshop, which is held for six weeks every summer at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire:
The Miskatonic Scholarship will be awarded to a promising new writer of Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror. Let us be clear: we are not looking for Lovecraft pastiches, nor even Cthulhu Mythos stories. References to Arkham, Azathoth, shoggoths, the Necronomicon, and the fungi from Yuggoth are by no means obligatory… though if some candidates choose to include them, that’s fine as well. What we want is the sort of originality that HPL displayed in his day, something that goes beyond the tired tropes of werewolves, vampires and zombies, into places strange and terrifying and never seen before. What we want are nightmares new and resonant and profound, cosmic terrors that will haunt our dreams for years to come.
It is immensely gratifying to see a true master of the craft who also has a thorough understanding of what Lovecraft was really about. I am not always the biggest fan of A Song of Ice and Fire (despite its occasional Lovecraftian references…), but there’s no denying that Martin knows his stuff.
The Crimson Court DLC for Darkest Dungeon now has a page on Steam. The release date is… “when it’s ready.”
Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court is the first expansion for the award-winning grim and gothic RPG by Red Hook Studios. The Crimson Court enhances any Darkest Dungeon campaign with the addition of a new playable hero class, new monsters, new bosses, the Fanatic wandering miniboss, new items, and a fresh and interesting way to upgrade your Hamlet.
Another thing coming to Steam, on May 10, is Inner Voices, which is a Lovecraft-inspired “dark first person adventure game with horror and rogue-like elements.” Press release here and some additional info here.
Also on Steam, and at -15% off, is a new Lovecraft-inspired game called Chronicle of Innsmouth (announcement via Adventure Gamers):
Chronicle of Innsmouth was born by combining the stories of master-of-horror, H.P. Lovecraft, and the style of Lucas’ graphic adventures in the 90s. Horror scenes and creepy moments create the many grotesque and paradoxical situations.
About half an hour of preview demo gameplay from the upcoming Lovecraftian horror video game Conarium is available here.
An interview with Gary Gianni on the making of “Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea” can be found here:
“There are these great qualities that I think go all the way back to Ulysses,” Gianni said. “We plundered a lot of different cliches and hopefully given them a little bit of a modern twist here, but essentially, it’s a seafaring adventure with a certain amount of H.P. Lovecraft cosmic horror tied into it as well.”
Cthulhu Reborn has announced the release of “The Damned & The Degenerate,” which is the fifth installment in their “Ticket of Leave” series of mini-supplements for Convicts & Cthulhu.
Bloody Disgusting: The original Alien Xenomorph design was wonderfully absurd.
Shoggoth.net: Review of The Tower of Zhaal by C. T. Phipps.
Rob Oren reviews Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu.
And two more videos from PlayingBoardGames: Arkham Horror: The Card Game and Arkham Horror.
And finally two new Kickstarter projects:
Between Twilight and Dawn is “a collection of Lovecraftian and cosmic horror stories that begin at twilight and end at dawn” from Golden Goblin Press:
Between Twilight and Dawn is a collection of eleven horror and cosmic horror short stories totaling just over sixty thousand words. The theme of the collection is as its title says, all the stories begin at sunset and resolve by sunrise. These stories take place in a wide variety of locations and historical periods.
The Black Gloves is “a 1940s-set Film Noir that combines spine-tingling horror with intense psychological dread – a supernatural tale where one man must battle against a terrifying stalker as ancient as time itself.”
From what I can see, this project is based more around the Owlman mythology and doesn’t seem to have all that much to do with Lovecraft.
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