Reviews from the pages of The Unspeakable Oath.
[Our review column returned in TUO4 with one negative review. — John Scott Tynes, 1994] Horror on the Orient Express A “luxury campaign” for Call of Cthulhu Chaosium, Inc. $39.95 Review ©1991 John Tynes Orient Express is certainly one of the most intriguing releases Chaosium has ever put out. The high price tag is the…
By Les Dean and John Tynes, © 1994 [The debut of our review column. I think the review of "Return to Dunwich" set the standard I was looking for in TUO reviews, since it considered the item in question not just as a gaming supplement, but as a creative work with thematic intentions. — John…
Cthulhu Saves the World Zeboyd Games, $3.00 (zeboyd.com) Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons Remember the classic 8-bit RPGs like Final Fantasy, Fantasy Star, and pretty much anything else with “Fantasy” in the title? Do you find yourself often wistfully saying, “They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore?” Well, how cool would it be to…
Lovecraftian Tales from the Table 8-gigabyte DVD By Paul Maclean Published by Yog-Sothoth.com, $6.95 Reviewed by Matthew Pook What if you played through two of the hobby’s most highly regarded campaigns and recorded every single session of both? This is exactly what Paul Maclean has done with Lovecraftian Tales from the Table, a DVD that…
The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast By Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer, www.hppodcraft.com Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons Do you love Lovecraft? Do you like free stuff? Well, then, that’s all you need to know about The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast. Go there now and enjoy! That’s the quick and dirty way to sell this…
Cthulhu 101: A Beginner’s Guide to the Dreamer in the Deep Published by Atomic Overmind Press, $8.95 By Kenneth Hite Reviewed by Matthew Pook As you can see in his Trail of Cthulhu, Ken Hite is Call of Cthulhu’s number one fan. He is more than qualified to write an initiate’s guide to Cthulhu and…
The Primal State Chaosium, Inc., $22 By Jeff Moeller Reviewed by Matthew Pook Since 2003, the Miskatonic University Library Association series of monographs has been Chaosium’s way of making other works available to players of both Call of Cthulhu and Basic Role Playing. Bar the printing, each monograph’s author is responsible for the writing, the…
Colour from the Dark Studio Interzona Directed by Ivan Zuccon Starring Debbie Rochon, Michael Segal, Marysia Kay Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons Italian horror is at its best when it’s showing surreal, nightmarish images. Dario Argento, Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci were all masters of that art. Now you can add a new name to…
New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley Published by Miskatonic River Press, $29.95 By Keith “Doc” Herber, Tom Lynch, Oscar Rios, Kevin Ross and Christopher Smith Adair Reviewed by Matthew Pook New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley is special. The debut book from Miskatonic River Press, founded by the late Keith “Doc” Herber, it marked…
The Dying of St. Margaret’s Published by Pelgrane Press, $4.95 By Graham Walmsley, art by Jérôme Huguenin Reviewed by Matthew Pook The Dying of St. Margaret’s is a downloadable one-shot scenario for Trail of Cthulhu, Pelgrane Press’ RPG of Lovecraftian investigative horror set in the desperate decade of the 1930s. It is written for the…
