©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…
©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…
©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…
©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,…
[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…
© 1991 C. Raymond Lewis [This short story and the accompanying article were written by my then-roommate and friend Charlie Lewis. A second tale of the redoubtable Dr. Hale appeared in TUO10 (1994), although it was written not long after…
[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…
[“A Typical Dunwish Farm” and its companion piece “Earth, Sky, Soul” are meant to add on to Chaosium’s RETURN TO DUNWICH book. The second piece is the only thing resembling a scenario in TUO4. — John Scott Tynes, 1994] A…
[“A Typical Dunwish Farm” and its companion piece “Earth, Sky, Soul” are meant to add on to Chaosium’s RETURN TO DUNWICH book. The second piece is the only thing resembling a scenario in TUO4. — John Scott Tynes, 1994] A…
By Phillip H. Garland, © 1991 [TUO4 marked the debut of this column, by teacher and self-described “itenerant historian” Phil Garland. One of Call of Cthulhu’s greatest strengths (a strength missing from nearly every other game) is a real sense…
