Dan Davenport hosted a live online chat with Dan Harms, author of the Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia and one of the editors of The Unspeakable Oath. The original transcript from the chat is online at the Hardboiled GMshoe’s Office. Here’s a slightly edited version with questions highlighted and organized for easier reading. [19:04] <+DanHarms> I’m Dan/Daniel…
We have updated our submissions guidelines with new rates for some written articles. Short articles such as Tales of Terror, Mysterious Manuscripts, and reviews now pay a flat $20, regardless of length. That’s not a great difference from before, except in the case of longer pieces — but we want to encourage short, sharp works…
By John Tynes, © 1994. The Unspeakable Oath 4 established firmly in my mind that it took an entire semester to produce an Oath. We began this issue right after GenCon as school started back (this was the fall of 1991, the beginning of my Junior year of college) and didn’t get it done til…
©1991 John Tynes [The second part of the infamous "severed dog's head" story appeared in this installment of my editorial, to the delight and horror of our readers, making this one memorable for me. The band I quote directly below, a local group called East Ash, broke up in 1992 (as I recall) much to…
©1991 by the respective writers [Our second letters column found some interesting reactions to the Dread Page of TUO3, as well as the first mention of what was to become a major effort for Pagan Publishing: our multi-media convention games. A few days before I wrote this little intro we introduced our third multi-media Call…
©1991 Jeff Barber [This installment of "Message In A Bottle" provoked a minor controversey in the letters column owing to its mucking about with an historical personage. Cheesy or Cthulhuoid? You be the judge! — John Scott Tynes, 1994] translated from the original document discovered at an old and secluded baronial farm in Southern Austria…
©1991 Scott David Aniolowski [Scott Aniolowski is known to his associates as "Stat-Man" among other things, for his talents and enthusiasm for writing up stats for scores of Mythos creatures derived from fiction. In TUO4 he checked in again with more critters. Some of his TUO monsters turned up in Call of Cthulhu 5th Edition;…
©1991 Per Okerstrom [handout #1, a newspaper article] SEA SERPENT — AT LAST? Mystery Carcass Washes Ashore Officials are baffled as to the origin of a putrefying monstrosity that made landfall here in late August. The creature, some forty feet in total length, seems to possess several fins or arms. Everand Horne, founder of the…
©1991 Mark Morrison Always it comes back to haunt me, this case. Some nights it speaks to me, its leather hasps whispering dire secrets I have no desire to know, no need to learn. I would burn the infernal thing, save that I fear this would somehow signal my own fiery destruction. We are bound…
[As TUO4 was coming together, so was Call of Cthulhu, fifth edition. I worked on the book to critique & comment the manuscript, and at one point Kevin Ross compiled lengthy notes on all the Mythos tomes that have appeared in the rulebook and in the fiction. These notes were to have appeared in CoC5…
