Category: Lovecraft

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    Gonzo cowboys

    People occasionally ask on fora like r/osr “what is gonzo?” and my new answer is the 1935 Gene Autry serial Phantom Empire. You can watch the whole thing on YouTube. It is totally bananas. It has singing cowboys, kid investigators, gangsters, an evil scientist, and a subterranean lost civilization. When I told a friend about…

  • Artic Salvage

    In segment two of episode #603 of Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, they discuss a 1962 CIA operation to salvage an abandoned Soviet drift station and how it would make a great Fall of Delta Green one-shot. I loved the idea so much that I hit pause on my regular Shadowdark campaign and ran…

  • The Social Construction of R’yleh

    Among the great classics of 20th century social theory is Berger and Luckmann’s Social Construction of Reality. The book is brilliant and if you hate the phrase “social construction” it’s probably because you haven’t read the book itself but only gotten the ideas second hand from its less appealing fans who don’t take its ideas…