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This week we chat about how we discovered Lovecraft, became fans of the Call of Cthulhu RPG and ended up writing for it and other RPGs. If you fancy listening to a couple of middle-aged men and one young whippersnapper talking about the good old days, this is the episode for you!
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Welcome to Blasphemous Tomes. Within these pages you’ll find a selection of film, book and gaming related reviews and articles.
This site is also home to The Good Friends of Jackson Elias, a podcast about Call of Cthulhu, horror films, weird fiction and roleplaying games in general.
The hosts are all regular writers for Call of Cthulhu, offering personal insights into the game.
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Scott Dorward is a writer and editor, working in tabletop roleplaying games. He is the former line developer for Cubicle 7’s World War Cthulhu.
Paul Fricker is co-author of the latest edition of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. @paulfricker
Matthew Sanderson is an author who has written for Vampire the Masquerade, Call of Cthulhu and Trail of Cthulhu.
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The sound is much clearer this time, nice job.
Glad to hear that, Steve. We recorded it at the same time as the other one, but I played around with it in Audacity afterwards to boost the levels. It’s good to know that it helped.
Interesting — I didn’t notice mention of the Grafton/Granada Lovecraft reprints of the Lovecraft Omnibus anthologies (three thick paperback volumes: At the Mountains of Madness, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Haunter of the Dark) which came out in the mid 1980s in the UK and which were very popular among the people I knew (we’d mostly never heard of Lovecraft before then). CoC contributed to their sales, I’m sure, but they also got people like me into Lovecraft and hence CoC.
Came late to your Podcast’s so I am catching up….but I really enjoyed this Episode because it brought back memories….and I even said Fantasy Archives before Scott even mentioned the name…I remember going once to the Fantasy Archives with Scott & Sol…..and then you mentioned the games at your parent’s house….boy do i remember them!!! Especially when you first started the Call of Cthulhu sessions. I am hooked on these Podcast’s now…
I’m glad you’re enjoying the podcasts, David!
Those were wonderful days in New York and I still look back at them fondly.
I first heard about HPL via the Illuminatus books by Shea & Wilson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
Anyone else read these?
Oh gosh, yes! I’ve read Illuminatus! three times and it’s still one (or three) of my favourite books. I read it for the first time shortly after reading all of Lovecraft’s stories, so the references delighted me.
Have you read Wilson’s Schrödinger’s Cat trilogy? I seem to remember there are more Lovecraft references in those books as well.