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Lovecraft´s The Dunwich Horror Now For Sale

Lovecraft´s The Dunwich Horror Now For Sale

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Free League’s main bread and butter is tabletop games, but they also have a side business we sometimes hear about — book publishing. Last year they published a new edition of a classic HP Lovecraft book and this year they’ve done it again, specifically with his tale The Dunwich Horror. Lovecraft wrote the novella in 1928 and it was published for the first time in the magazine Weird Tales the next year. Free League’s version contains the whole story with large illustrations on every page by artist François Baranger. Baranger’s art will be reproduced in a large 262 X 350mm folio format, bringing Lovecraft’s chilling story to life. He’s the illustrator of Free League’s previous Lovecraft books, The Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness. In the remote Massachusetts village of Dunwich, lost in the depths of the inhospitable countryside with its dark, bramble-covered valleys, ancient witch stories live on, and strange underground noises sometimes echo beneath the hills topped by mysterious stone circles. On an isolated farm

HP Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness Coming From Free League

HP Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness Coming From Free League

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You may recall that last year, Free League Publishing put out an illustrated hardcover edition of HP Lovecraft’s iconic classic, The Call Of Cthulhu. Now they’re following it up with another book in the same fashion: an illustrated edition of Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness. The paintings are being handled by the same artist from the previous volume, François Baranger, A huge fan of Lovecraft’s stories, Baranger has thrown himself into his work, creating sweeping illustrations of the desolate Antarctic peninsula. It’s such a big project, it will be released in two parts. Volume 1 will be released later this month. Antarctica. A place of frozen wastes, desolation, and things best left forgotten. Explore the tale of William Dyer, a professor from Miskatonic University and the leader of an ill-fated expedition to that remote and forlorn continent. Recorded in a series of letters, Dyers tells a scarcely believable tale full of anomalous and often horrific events. The expedition ventures further than any other before them, and ultimately pays the

Call of Cthulhu Announced For Switch

Call of Cthulhu Announced For Switch

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Call of Cthulhu came out for PS4, XBox One and PC in 2018….now one year later, the Eldritch Abomination will be creeping onto the Switch October 8. You play as Edward Pierce, a private investigator contacted by the father of someone named Sarah Hawkins. A mysterious fire erupted on the island she lived on, destroying her mansion and killing Sarah as well as her entire family. Pierce is determined to find out the truth behind the incident, but the locals of Darkwater Island seem reluctant to open up. Something strange is going on, and it may involve supernatural forces. – Investigative RPG set in the Lovecraft Universe, developed with Unreal Engine 4. – Play as Edward Pierce and shed light on Sarah Hawkins murder, while facing the horrors of a grim island filled with monstrosities lurking in the dark. – Doubt your own senses and experience true madness. Enhance your character’s abilities and use new skills to discover the truth. – Experience rich, open exploration, full of deep dialogue with

New Street Date For The Sinking City

New Street Date For The Sinking City

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When the latest trailer for The Sinking City was released without a street date attached, we theorized it might be suffering a delay. We were correct as developer Frogwares Studios assigned a new release date for the game as of today: June 27. In the words of Frogwares, “Too many games came out now so we prefer to get out the way.” In The Sinking City, you play a PI trying to make sense of the case he’s wound up trapped in. The setting is New England in the 1920s — the fictional city of Oakmont, Massachusetts. Oakmont has had some flooding issues lately…but that’s not the least of it. All that water is supernatural in origin, a by-product of the Lovecraftian monsters invading the city. A private investigator arrives to determine what’s up. Our fearless detective must explore the city, gather clues and figure out how to end the invasion. As Charles Reed — the PI’s name — you’ll be completely alone in your investigation, with no allies or partnerships

The Sinking City: Gameplay Video

The Sinking City: Gameplay Video

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Bigben Interactive and Frogwares Studios have been hyping up The Sinking City for months now. What else could they have to show us? Believe it or not, they haven’t gotten around to revealing gameplay footage yet. But it’s here now, in the brand-new “Detective Trailer.” In The Sinking City, you play a PI trying to make sense of the case he’s wound up trapped in. The setting is New England in the 1920s — the fictional city of Oakmont, Massachusetts. Oakmont has had some flooding issues lately…but that’s not the least of it. All that water is supernatural in origin, a by-product of the Lovecraftian monsters invading the city. A private investigator arrives to determine what’s up. Our fearless detective must explore the city, gather clues and figure out how to end the invasion. As Charles Reed — the PI’s name — you’ll be completely alone in your investigation, with no allies or partnerships — it’s just you, the rainy streets, and the clues. You play the game by exploring

The Call Of Cthulhu Kickstarter Has Launched

The Call Of Cthulhu Kickstarter Has Launched

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They’ve brought us Tales from The Loop, Mutant: Year Zero, and other tabletop projects…..now Free League Publishing are going straight to HP Lovecraft’s perennially popular world and answering The Call of Cthulhu. What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise…  When Francis Thurston discovers notes left behind by his grand-uncle, he soon discovers evidence of an unspeakable horror. An insight that something beyond reality itself is haunting humanity. Nightmarish visions of a colossal city that rises from the sea and a sleeping god that drives people into madness. In the shadows, those dwell that wish to awaken the one that slumbers in order to spread madness and destruction over the world. Step by step, Francs realizes that his relative’s research got too close to the truth. Francis becomes obsessed by the search for knowledge, while ancient powers rises from the depth and a darkness descends upon the world. The stars are right. The end is near. This isn’t an original story inspired by Lovecraft’s writing…this IS Lovecraft’s writing. It’s

Call Of Cthulhu Video Game Officially Released

Call Of Cthulhu Video Game Officially Released

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It may be overshadowed by several louder releases this week (hi RDR2), but Cyanide Studio’s Call of Cthulhu video game (based on the classic tabletop RPG) is finally finished and purchasable on your game-playing machine of choice. You play as Edward Pierce, a private investigator contacted by the father of someone named Sarah Hawkins. A mysterious fire erupted on the island she lived on, destroying her mansion and killing Sarah as well as her entire family. Pierce is determined to find out the truth behind the incident, but the locals of Darkwater Island seem reluctant to open up. Something strange is going on, and it may involve supernatural forces. – Investigative RPG set in the Lovecraft Universe, developed with Unreal Engine 4. – Play as Edward Pierce and shed light on Sarah Hawkins murder, while facing the horrors of a grim island filled with monstrosities lurking in the dark. – Doubt your own senses and experience true madness. Enhance your character’s abilities and use new skills to discover the truth.

Syrinscape Unleashes The Shoggoth Soundset On UK Games Expo

Syrinscape Unleashes The Shoggoth Soundset On UK Games Expo

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Syrinscape, the Australian company specializing in music and effects tracks to enhance your tabletop games, released the Shoggoth Soundset earlier this month. The Shoggoth Soundset is a new array of sounds met to emulate the Lovecraftian beast (or any similar beast) in any game where it might appear. Now Syrinscape is taking its monster sounds (and others) to the UK Games Expo in Birmingham. Benjamin Loomes will serve as the grand master of an all-star Call of Cthulhu game session featuring Munchkin and Dork Tower artist John Kovalic, Pathfinder’s Jason Bulmahn and Amanda Kunz, Call of Cthulhu’s Mike Mason and host of Knightmare Live Paul Flannery. Naturally, the game will be enhanced by Syrinscape’s signature product. “As the room is transformed, the players will clutch desperately to their sanity in an immersive game of psychic horror and Cthulhu mythos,” Syrinscape says. “Audience members are invited to not only watch the show, but to participate by offering up party twists to frustrate the players and playing flash-mob-style sound cues.” The Shoggoth

Syrinscape Presents The Shoggoth Soundset

Syrinscape Presents The Shoggoth Soundset

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Syrinscape, the Australian company specializing in music and effects tracks to enhance your tabletop games, has released the Shoggoth Soundset, a new set of sounds met to emulate the Lovecraftian beast in any game where it or a similar monster might appear. Wait’ll you hear how they created it. Throughout 2017, a team representing Syrinscape traveled all over the world, through the US, the UK and the rest of Europe…and on every stop, they’d ask people to groan, roar or emit whatever beastly sound they could come up with. The end result is truly one of a kind….a multi-lingual horrific mono-voice merged from thousands. Syrinscape’s take on what the Shoggoth sounds like is certainly the most creative (and elaborate). “The legendary Shoggoth truly comes alive with this amazing collection of voices from around the world, carefully curated and lovingly edited with repeated sanity checks,” says Benjamin Loomes, Syrinscape’s CEO and Creative Director. “Absolutely everyone who contributed their voice is included in the mass-voice hideosity that is Lovecraft’s Shoggoth!” The Shoggoth

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones Gets Steam Greenlight

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones Gets Steam Greenlight

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Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, a supernatural horror role-playing video game which takes place in the strange worlds of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, has launched its Steam Greenlight campaign. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones will draw the player into a bleak journey from a ruined Arkham to the very depths of the Abyss. The game has also gotten a new trailer, seen below. According to the developers, gameplay experience promises a mix of rich role-playing and turn based tactical combat in an authentic illustrative 2D graphical style. In Stygian, you’ll be able to create your character from scratch with a robust selection of archetypal backgrounds with different origin stories, attributes, skills, traits and lastly belief systems which determine how your character replenishes his lost sanity, also presenting unique dialog choices. The narrative of the game is strongly connected to the works of H. P. Lovecraft. In your quest, you’ll use the haunted violin of Erich Zann to lure a fiendish deity and convince the poor wretched protagonist of “The Outsider” to