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Chaosium is now accepting submissions for the fourth Halloween Horrors Monograph.

Each entry must be an original BRP adventure between 6,000 - 10,000 words. Text files or word documents only. Don’t submit PDF’s, quark files, etc. Don’t worry, 6,000 words is much shorter than it sounds!

Entries must be turned in before October 1st, 2008.

If you think you’re a good writer, or a good artist, then why don’t you head over to Chaosium and take a look.

I really wish I could read German.  Actually, I wish I could speak and read a lot of languages, including Japanese, especially considering the fact that I am half Japanese… but we’re talking about German here.  The reason behind my wishing to read German is because there appears to be an excellent HPL/Call of Cthulhu site called “Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium”, and its all done up in German.

You can find the site here.

Or, for us non-German speaking readers, you can Googlelate it here.

Well I’ll be darned!  Its not an actual story connection, but I’d never have guessed that the actor who plays Torchwood’s Ianto Jones would be doing a book signing for an audio book version of “The Call of Cthulhu”.

If you happen to be near Birmingham, UK, maybe you should go see Gareth David-Lloyd at the Nostalgia And Comics at Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham, between 11am and 1pm, Saturday, June 28.  He’s also set to make appearances this year at Polaris 22, San Diego Comic Con, and Dragon*Con.

Read more at The Geek Files.

Yog-Sothoth.com and “Papers Falling from an Attic Window” both have news of new game related goodies for Call of Cthulhu.

Head over to YSDC for news on Call of Cthulhu coming to the virtual desktop.

And click to PFfaAW for news on a new Chaosium Licensee

Cthulhu Wiki, The Wiki for the RPG Gamer.

Grim Reviews has more words and links on the subject.  Me?  I’ve been busy busy busy.  One wouldn’t think I could get busier, but it happens.  One more book down, and many reviews need to be made.  Maybe I’ll read the Cthulhu Wiki instead.

Here are four longer scenarios set in and around the Second World War. Each scenario offers a distinct setting and location though, roughly speaking, each gives players at least a glimpse of the Mediterranean Sea. There is no plausible way (we can see) of linking the scenarios into a campaign, but this is the idea: the situation of war is ideal for one-shot scenarios.

Read more at YSDC

If you’re like me, you like audio dramas of super heroes and horror. You’ll like serious ones, comedic ones, and of course, the always cool sounding British accents. It’ll also tickle your fancy to know that two of the actors, Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy played the Doctor Who characters The Brigadier and Davros, respectively.

The Nazad Conspiracy is a light hearted and playful romp through a horrific situation involving horrific creatures, magic, and spirits returning from the dead. Its rather like a Call of Cthulhu game scenario told as a story, actually. If you don’t like constant humor in your tales of magical horror, then this might not be for you. If you like the comedy of a fun Doctor Who episode, then give this one a try.

The only problems I could find was a moment where I thought maybe the sound effects overpowered the mood (but only briefly and quickly forgotten), and that it just wasn’t long enough. When you get caught up in a story, it can go by quickly, and this just seemed over too soon.

It was fun and enjoyable, and well worth the purchase. You can make said purchase for the downloadable mp3 version (with pdf CD booklet and covers) at Lovecraftiana.com, Yog-Sothoth.com’s online web store.

The Grim Blogger of Grim Reviews (who happens to be kicking my ass with the quality and quantity of Mythos content he posts) has yet more good stuff up on his site! This time its about the GumShoe system based RPG “Trail of Cthulhu” and he’s got all sorts of good comments and links to entertain and inform you about the game.

After having listened to the recorded audio of a sample game over at Yog-Sothoth.com, and then listening to their interview with the guys of Pelgrane Press, I forone am highly intrigued by the game. Heres a little bit of a summarization I remember from the audio. “They wanted to make a game that kept dice rolling when it was fun, but removed dice rolling when it wasn’t”. They’ve come up with a point cost system to remove dice rolling for parts of the game mechanics. You can hear more details in the YSDC interview audio on Yog Radio #27.

Now I just need to find the time and people to play with! Not to mention pre-ordering the game manuals!