Mythos Tomes

We’re back and we’re cracking open the books, trying to ignore the strange wails they issue as we do so. The words probably shouldn’t scurry across the page like that. Maybe we’re lucky and they’re just bookworms. Whatever they are, we wish they would stop whispering such horrible things.

In practice, most bookworms simply ask for directions to Matt’s house.

Main Topic: Mythos Tomes

It’s taken a long time but we’ve finally tackled one of the most important topics in Call of Cthulhu: Mythos tomes. Hell, our website takes its name from the most famous one of all.

Although maybe not quite this edition.

We spend a little time talking about how we might use Mythos tomes in our Call of Cthulhu games, how they work mechanically and what new and interesting tomes we might create. Matt’s shrieks of anguish as we discuss players who burn eldritch texts are worth the price of admission on their own.

Links

Some of the things we mention in this episode include:

* At the Mountains of Madness

* Maléfique

* Our favourite ephemera shop in Newport Pagnell

* Kenneth Grant

* The Occult and Lovecraft

* Finnegans Wake

* Walker in the Wastes

* The Anarchist Cookbook

* Bookhounds of London

* Multi-Coloured Swap Shop

* The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

* Break Today

* Planarian worms

* Desert Island Discs (not tomes)

* Bob Monkhouse’s joke book

* Monty Python’s “The Funniest Joke in the World” sketch

* “The Treader of the Dust” by Clark Ashton Smith

* The Revelations of Gla’aki

* Samizdat

* Cultes Des Goules

* The History of the Necronomicon