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Documentaries are my thing, so here is a list of documentaries that I have seen that should be of some use. Afraid of the Dark Of all the documentaries I will cover in this posting, this is the most applicable to the classic Ravenloft era. We in our modern age cannot imagine what life was like befor...

For a while now, I’ve been interested in the contemporary horror genre. Having been burned out on the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression era of “The Call of Cthulhu,” I am hoping that Gothic Earth Eternal fits the bill. Here are some hero characters for the game. Yes, I know that some of them...

sorry I'm a history buff and found the previous threads enthralling. Could the collective genius from the prior postings do one more? Lizzie Borden trial was in 1892. Please help. Should Lizzie the spinster be the villian or should folklore prevail as her parents were abusive sadists A couple of mo...

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0416/dracul ... estry.html

From the RTE story you can also trace Bram Stoker'S family tree.

The Apocalypse Machine is the second book, (should have been the first,) of the Cthulhu Apocalypse of the Trail of Cthulhu game system, produced by Pelgrane Press. This seventy page PDF is an outline for a Game Master to design his own cataclysms. Though written with the Cthulhu Mythos in mind, the ...

A couple of years back, I was curious as to when the works of H.P. Lovecraft would become public domain. This was just before the passage of the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act,” and the limit was 75 years after the publication of the work. Lovecraft died in 1937 so the conservative estimate would be 7...

To All Present, Greetings! My Screen name is Ronin Lore. I have been Role Play Gaming since 1975. I have had experience with just about every genre out there. Up until about 1995, I had tried to get some experience with any system that came out. At about 1995 the market collapsed with the introducti...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
Chris Perkel and Georgie Roland's 2007 feature-length documentary "The Town That Was" does a much better job than the Wikipedia artical.