The time has come! All signs and portents point to this momentous night, and you and your siblings of shadow stand ready. Your cult has sacrificed much - and many - to prepare the ceremony to awaken the dread god whose name twists your tongue and dark purpose twists your mind. But, this night is one of great power, and your lodge isn`t the only one who seeks to harness that power. Summon ancient evil and herald the fall of mankind in Fate of the Elder Gods, a wicked game of supernatural summoning co-designed by award-winning game designer Richard Launius (Arkham Horror, Elder Sign). 1–4 Players 30–90 Min Age: 13+

Nice small foam tray with 40 cut-outs for Pandemic Cthulhu Core Box. The tray comes with a foam topper Dimension for this board game foam tray is 296 mm x 214 mm x 40 mm. CFC-free; according to Oeko-Tex ® Standard 100 / Class I - items for babies and toddlers chlorine and acid free Made in Germany

H. P. Lovecraft's "New York Exile" of 1924-26 was perhaps the unhappiest period of his entire life: living in a city whose giganticism and heterogeneity he loathed, unable to find work and forced to economize drastically on food and other necessities, and trapped in an uncongenial marriage, Lovecraft could only express his anger and despair in his work. This volume, which gathers the five stories he wrote during this period, shows how Lovecraft sought refuge by returning imaginatively to his native New England ("The Shunned House," "In the Vault"), lashing out at the many "foreigners" occupying the city ("The Horror at Red Hook"), seeking the antiquarian havens that still remained in the metropolis ("He"), or boldly confronting New York's clangor and stridency ("Cool Air"). Editors S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz supply a lengthy biographical introduction as well as exhaustive notes to each story, supplying information on their background, influences, and use of the history and topography of New York City. As a result, these five stories present an underlying unity beyond their varied themes and locales: they show how Lovecraft came to terms with America's only true megalopolis. 150p

Säännöt valmistajan sivuilta. A deduction game of cosmic horror It will take a team of extraordinary individuals to embark on this mission of cosmic proportions and apocalyptic repercussions. As specialists from the Department of Paranormal Investigations, you have been sent to perform incantations to create four sigils and reinforce the cosmic gate. Cultists are sure to be aware of your plans by now and are secretly plotting to thwart them. The clock is ticking and time is running short. Stop the cultists - create the sigils - seal the failing gate - save humanity. That is your mission... at the Gate of R'yleh. 4–8 Players 45–60 Min Age: 12+

Carnival Expansion Do you have what it takes to survive under the Big Top? Confront your fears in the hall of mirrors, the Wax Museum, the Freak Show and more as you are mercilessly chased by the Carnival’s own Gingersnaps the Clown! New Thematic Mechanic: Collect Tickets and use them to help you survive the fun house of horrors in... the Grind House: Carnival! Cthulhu Expansion Create your own Lovecraftian night of horror with the Cthulhu expansion. Try to survive horrifying rooms inspired by classic Cthulhu mythos stories like Dreams in the Witch House, Shadow over Innsmouth, The Mountains of Madness, and of course The Call of Cthulhu. A brand new Insanity mechanic will ensure your night becomes a true Lovecraftian nightmare that you will never forget! New Thematic Mechanic: gain madness and watch the world warp around you as things go horribly wrong... as they always do... in Grind House: Cthulhu

This slip-cased box set is a collection of H. P. Lovecraft’s entire output―in six volumes. This collection includes everything from his early macabre stories to his tales of the dreamlands, and of course, his famous Cthulhu novellas. First written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and ‘30s, Lovecraft’s writing still resonates today and will leave readers both terrified and astounded by the breadth of his imagination. 1600p

For decades, David Goudsward has been a leading authority on the obscurer historical and topographical corners of his native New England. In this lavish and detailed treatise, he has written the definitive treatment of Lovecraft’s connections with the Merrimack Valley of coastal Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Goudsward traces Lovecraft’s initial visits in the 1920s to such towns as Newburyport, Haverhill, and Hampstead, where he met such colleagues as Charles W. “Tryout” Smith, Myrta Alice Little, and Edgar J. Davis. Later visits clearly inspired many of the topographical features in such tales as “The Shadow over Innsmouth” and “The Shadow out of Time.” Goudsward has made a profound study of Lovecraft’s letters and other documents in tracing the Providence writer’s movements in the area and the impressions he drew from it. This book is lavishly illustrated with dozens of photographs of the locale, including many vivid period snapshots that show the towns and other landmarks as they would have been seen by Lovecraft himself. Goudsward also treats the possibility that Lovecraft visited Mystery Hill, a megalithic site that some scholars believe inspired “The Dunwich Horror.” H. P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley is an exhaustive treatment of a subject that has rarely been discussed before, but that is of crucial importance to H. P. Lovecraft’s life and imagination. 192p

As a student at the prestigious H.P. Lovecraft Preparatory Academy, you`ll uncover conspiracies, deal with bullies and uncaring professors, explore dangerous steam tunnels, study for exams, escape from horrible monstrosities that humanity was never meant to see, and try to avoid an extended stay at Arkham Sanitarium. And that`s just orientation week! A semi-humorous RPG in the tradition of Saturday morning cartoons featuring mystery-busting kids only the monsters are real. Features a detailed sandbox environment on the campus of a haunted New England boarding school. Six different Student Types to choose from, including Witches, Summoners, or Mad Scientists. Design your own faculty! Want Dr. Frankenstein to be the new Biology professor? No problem! Thanks to the medical breakthroughs developed by Dr. West in the school infirmary, your character cant die but sanity is another matter entirely. Tons of optional rules to customize your individual game. Choose Your System. HPL Prep is available in three systems to suit your academic needs. Play the core game with modified PDQ rules, leap into the Pip System, or explode into action with our Savage Worlds edition.

As a student at the prestigious H.P. Lovecraft Preparatory Academy, you`ll uncover conspiracies, deal with bullies and uncaring professors, explore dangerous steam tunnels, study for exams, escape from horrible monstrosities that humanity was never meant to see, and try to avoid an extended stay at Arkham Sanitarium. And that`s just orientation week! A semi-humorous RPG in the tradition of Saturday morning cartoons featuring mystery-busting kids only the monsters are real. Features a detailed sandbox environment on the campus of a haunted New England boarding school. Six different Student Types to choose from, including Witches, Summoners, or Mad Scientists. Design your own faculty! Want Dr. Frankenstein to be the new Biology professor? No problem! Thanks to the medical breakthroughs developed by Dr. West in the school infirmary, your character cant die but sanity is another matter entirely. Tons of optional rules to customize your individual game. Choose Your System. HPL Prep is available in three systems to suit your academic needs. Play the core game with modified PDQ rules, leap into the Pip System, or explode into action with our Savage Worlds edition.

For nearly three decades, Steven J. Mariconda has been one of the keenest analysts of H. P. Lovecraft’s variegated literary work. In the 1980s, he wrote landmark articles on Lovecraft’s prose style, demonstrating how the dreamer from Providence utilized an array of rhetorical techniques to generate maximum power and effectiveness in the writing of weird fiction. Mariconda also focused on Lovecraft’s relations to Modernist writers such as T. S. Eliot and Hart Crane, proving that Lovecraft was a small but significant voice in the general literary tendencies of his time. Mariconda has also written penetrating articles on specific stories, including significant essays on the literary sources of “The Call of Cthulhu” and “The Haunter of the Dark.” And in the pioneering article “Toward a Reader-Response Approach to the Lovecraft Mythos,” Mariconda showed how Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos grew out of responses by readers and fellow writers of Weird Tales as each story successively engendered a sense of the reality of this invented cosmogony. As a reviewer, Mariconda has been acute in evaluating the leading Lovecraft scholarship of the past thirty years. But his work is far from solemn or pedantic; in an appendix to this book we find delightful strokes of humor, such as “A Real Hard Lovecraft Quiz.” This volume of Steven J. Mariconda’s collected essays establishes him as a leading voice in the dynamic Lovecraft scholarship of our time. 308p

The Jermyns have lived in their gothic estate in Cambridgeshire for centuries. Explorers and adventurers, they are a wild and violent bunch with a cursed, vile history. Until the birth of Arthur Jermyn. Arthur seems to possess a calmer, more intellectual side. These two halves seem to war for possession of Arthur's soul as he researches his family's past, hoping to find an origin for its wicked ways. He soon discovers the source for which even he could never have imagined. SC, 7x10, 52pgs, B&W

Denys Barry is strongly convinced that telepathy is possible and his clinical research at the Oakdale Institute supports his hypothesis. But Barry's research is jeopardized after he suffers a violent seizure in which he seems to sputter "cosmic" nonsense. Soon after Barry discovers that a criminal patient named Joe Slaader was admitted into Oakdale at the same as Barry's outburst. Barry is convinced his mind somehow tapped into Slaader's delusion. And he will now skirt theoretical metaphysical laws to try to tap into that criminal's mind again. In addition to the comic book adaptation this volume also contains the original Lovecraft story. SC, 7x10, 55pgs, B&W

In this final volume, the tales of Lovecraft’s final years are presented. The Antarctic novella At the Mountains of Madness is perhaps Lovecraft’s most finished work, a superb fusion of weirdness and science fiction that he referred to as “cosmicism.” “The Shadow over Innsmouth” is a chilling evocation of the terrors inherent in a lonely New England backwater, while “The Thing on the Doorstep” and “The Haunter of the Dark” feature physical horrors with cosmic implications. “The Shadow out of Time” is the culmination of Lovecraft’s portrayal of the vast vistas of space and time—his signature contribution to literature. In the thirty years since S. T. Joshi prepared revised editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories for Arkham House, Joshi has continued to do research on the textual accuracy of Lovecraft’s stories, and this comprehensive new edition is the result. For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story—manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first book publications. The result is an illuminating record of the textual history of the tales, along with how Lovecraft significantly revised his stories after initial publication. The result is the definitive text of Lovecraft’s fiction—an edition that supersedes all those that preceded it and should endure as the standard text of Lovecraft’s stories for many years. S. T. Joshi is a leading Lovecraft scholar and author of H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (1990), I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010), Lovecraft and an Age in Transition (2014), and other critical and biographical works. He has also done significant research on such writers as Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and Ramsey Campbell. 522p

Following S. T. Joshi’s acclaimed three-volume variorum edition of Lovecraft's fiction, this final collection includes all known revisions and collaborations undertaken by Lovecraft on behalf of his friends and clients. As with previous volumes in this series, the texts preserved herein scrupulously follow archival manuscripts, typescripts, or original publications, and constitute the definitive edition of these stories. Since Lovecraft’s customary procedure as a revisionist was to discard his client’s draft and entirely rewrite the story in his own words, much of the fiction in this collection represents original work by Lovecraft, including such notable contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos as “The Electric Executioner,” “Out of the Aeons,” and “The Diary of Alonzo Typer.” Supreme among the revisions in this volume is the brilliant novella “The Mound,” which embodies Lovecraft’s satirical commentary on the Machine Age “decadence” of his era. For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story—manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first book publications. The result is an illuminating record of the textual history of the tales, in an edition that supersedes all those that preceded it. As a bonus, this fourth volume contains the index to all four volumes of H. P. LOVECRAFT'S COLLECTED FICTION: A VARIORUM EDITION. 718p

A Lovecraft classic in a comic book format! The USS Augustus is a nuclear submarine. Its crew is unaccustomed to picking up castaways, especially on uncharted islands in the middle of the Atlantic. But that is where they find Emma Loveless, sole survivor of a private jet crash, who has an unbelievable story to tell. The Pentagon contacts Marcus Steed who shows them a strange statue of a monstrous sea god killing a whale. Not just a sea god but an elder god once worshipped by the Philistines as Dagon. And now the U.S. Navy will return to those islands to investigate her story. In addition to the comic adaptation, the original H.P. Lovecraft story is also included in this graphic novel. 76pgs, B&W

Preview. In Providence, Rhode Island, a dangerous inmate disappears from a hospital for the insane. At Miskatonic University, a professor slumps into a five-year reverie. In a mysterious and vivid dreamworld, a melancholy man seeks the home of the gods. And in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, polar explorers unearth secrets that reveal a past almost beyond comprehension - and a future too terrible to imagine. Graphic novelist I.N.J. Culbard gives terrifying form to four classic tales by H.P. Lovecraft: "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," "At The Mountains of Madness," and "The Shadow Out of Time." HC, 7x10, 512pgs, FC