We’re back and we’re going on our summer holidays. Of course, all this lockdown stuff means that we’re all somewhat limited in our options. With this in mind, we thought we’d take you on an audio tour of some of our favourite unusual places. Sure, at least one of them isn’t actually there anymore, but given that we’re used to making places up entirely, this is still a step up. It just means that you’ll have to source your own overpriced souvenirs.

Main Topic: Unusual Places

After the last few episodes, we thought we’d leave the cultists alone for a bit. Instead, this episode offers some unusual places from the real world, along with our thoughts about how we might use them in games of Call of Cthulhu. Such locations form the foundations of many of our scenarios, as a quick flick through our back catalogue might indicate.

Once again, the lockdown means we recorded this episode remotely. We hope that we’re getting the hang of making this sound all right. It’s far from the biggest problem current circumstances have presented, but it’s still a challenge.

Links

Things we mention in this episode include:

• Ghost Adventures
• The Seventh Circle
• Edge of Darkness (1985)
• Houska Castle
• Oak Island Money Pit
• The Keep by F Paul Wilson
• The Keep (1983)

• Deadwood, South Dakota
• Deadwood (2004)
• Devils Tower
• Devil’s Tower trilogy for Deadlands
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Giant’s Causeway
• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
• “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”
• The King in Yellow
• Millennium Bug

• Cabaret de L’enfer
• Cabaret du Ciel
• A contemporary account of the Cabaret de L’enfer
• Cabaret du Néant
• Pepper’s Ghost
• Ghosts in Call of Cthulhu
• The Monster Club (1981)
• Nightbreed (1988)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
• Rivers of London
• Café de Paris

• Our Lady of Remedies Church
• The Great Pyramid of Cholula
• Quetzalcoatl

• HP Lovecraft’s Dunwich sourcebook for Call of Cthulhu
• The Mysteries of Mesoamerica
• Avebury
• Stonehenge
• Silbury Hill
• Children of the Stones (1976)
• West Kennet Long Barrow
• Ministry of Works

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