
We’re back and we’re playing favourites. Sure, we love you all, but you do understand, right? And we also have favourite films, books and RPGs too, some of which were created within the last 10 years. We know that a lot of other people have taken the end of the decade as an opportunity to create similar lists, but we”re different! For a start, we’re doing it over a month later than everyone else.
Main Topic: The Best of the 2010s
In many respects, the 2010s were a terrible decade. We’ve seen political upheavals that will affect the world for generations, an ecological crisis that will affect it for even longer, and, worst of all, David Bowie died. It’s all been a bit shit, really.
But there has been some good stuff too. The 2010s were a boom time for media in general, and horror in particular. We have been living through a golden age of genre books, films and television. In this episode, we pick our favourites from each of these categories, explaining why we think our choice deserves to be held up as the best.
Links
Things we mention in this episode include:
- North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
- “Wild Acre”
- Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
- Wolfen
- The Howling
- American Werewolf in London
- James Herbert
- The Devil Rides Out
- Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud
- Scott’s review of Wounds
- The film, Wounds
- Harry D’Amour
- Hot War
- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Words Without Music: A Memoir by Philip Glass
- Akhnaten
- Candyman
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Einstein on the Beach

- Monsterhearts
- Cthulhu Dark
- Original Cthulhu Dark pamphlet
- Cthulhu by Gaslight
- RPGs of the 2010s on Wikipedia
- Call of Cthulhu 7th edition
- Kult: Divinity Lost
- The Princess Bride RPG
- FUDGE
- The Dresden Files RPG
- The Princess Bride film
- FATE
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- Apocalypse World
- D&D 5E
- Pathfinder
- Monster of the Week
- Dungeon World
- No Country For Old Kobolds
- Urban Shadows
- Tremulus
- Masks

- The VVitch
- The Babadook
- Under the Shadow
- Iran-Iraq War
- Djinn
- Mark Kermode’s Best of 2016
- The Cabin in the Woods
- Inception
- Insomnia
- Paprika
- Dreamscape
- Dark City
- The Thirteenth Floor
- The Matrix
- Memento
- Antichrist
- Get Out
- Berberian Sound Studio
- Joker
- You Were Never Really Here
- Whiplash
- Booksmart
- American Pie
- Superbad
- Juno
- The Wicker Man
- Cabaret

News
Concrete Cow 20
Concrete Cow 20 will take place on Saturday the 14th of March. This is Milton Keynes’ own one-day RPG convention, held in the Old Bath House in Wolverton. Tickets are £5 on the door. All three of us will be there and we would love to see you!

Masks of Nyarlathotep on How We Roll
Scott has been running the Peru chapter of Masks of Nyarlathotep for the How We Roll podcast, with an all-star cast of guests. Players include Seth Skorkowsky, Keeper Murph from the Miskatonic University Podcast, Veronica from Cthulhu and Friends, and Eoghan and Joe from How We Roll. The first few episodes are already available, with new horrors seeping out every few weeks thereafter.

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