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 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,…
©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.…
©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…
