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“The Shadow Over Innsmouth” (1931). Contains the report that led to the Innsmouth Raid and began the covert Cthulhu Wars.
Other Fiction
Bloch, Robert. Strange Eons (Pinnacle Books, Los Angeles, 1979). Presents a world of omnipresent cult activity that fulfills Lovecraft’s predictive nightmares.
Derleth, August. “The Black Island” (Weird Tales, January 1952). Concludes with the atomic bombing of R’lyeh during a nuclear test.
Detwiller, Dennis. Denied to the Enemy (Tynes Cowan Corp., Seattle, 2003). World War II novel set in the Delta Green universe.
Johnson, Robert Barbour. “Far Below” (Weird Tales, June/July 1939). Unveils the secret war between the Ghouls and the Special Subway Detail of the NYPD.
Lumley, Brian. The Burrowers Beneath (DAW Books, New York, 1974). Over-the-top novel of a full secret-war mobilization against a Mythos threat, the “Cthonians.”
Stross, Charlie. The Atrocity Archives (Golden Gryphon Press, Urbana, IL, 2004). This novel and its sequels combine Lovecraft with tradecraft; they’re spy thrillers in a Mythos-haunted world.
Games
Delta Green (Pagan Publishing, 1997). By combining the national security state with the Cthulhu Mythos, this magnificent setting for the Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing game manages to encapsulate both paranoias. Coming soon as a standalone RPG from Arc Dream Publishing.
Hornet Leader: The Cthulhu Conflict (DVG, 2013). Expansion for tabletop carrier-mission sim Hornet Leader covers the War on Horror.
“The Raid on Innsmouth” (Chaosium, 1992). Brilliant RPG simulation of the titular raid, for Call of Cthulhu.
Strange Aeons (Uncle Mike’s Worldwide, 2nd ed. 2015). Lovecraftian skirmish miniatures game; its 32mm figures are essentially compatible with Osprey’s 28mm miniatures lines. The monsters should loom at least a little larger.
Movies
The Devil’s Tomb (2009). Special Forces team in the Middle East encounters a primordial temple that serves as a prison for the Nephilim. Straight-to-DVD.
Monsters (2010). Director Gareth Edwards depicts a world halfway through an incomprehensible alien invasion from a civilian perspective behind the lines. His Godzilla (2014) foregrounds the military response to prehistoric demigods.
The Objective (2008). Crackling uncertainty horror follows a Special Forces team in Afghanistan; tightly scripted and directed by Daniel Myrick.
R-Point (2004). Kong Su-chang directs the best of the films mentioned here, about a South Korean platoon sent into a nightmarish rescue mission during the Vietnam War.
Ravenous (2002). Writer Ted Griffin infuses this cavalry vs Wendigo story set in the 1840s West with black humor and irony.
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Authors
Kenneth Hite holds a MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago. For the last twenty years he has worked as a full-time writer and role-playing game designer, contributing to many famous games including GURPS, Hero System, Vampire: The Dark Ages, and Savage Worlds. He has also written or co-written numerous books on esoteric subjects such as Cthulhu 101 and Where the Deep Ones Are. He is also the designer and writer of the Trail of Cthulhu role-playing system and its supplements.
Kennon Bauman holds degrees in Political Science and History from the University of South Dakota. He is a professional analyst whose writings on weird history, forteana, conspiracy theories, and adventure gaming can be most frequently found at the Illuminerdy.com. He lives outside Washington, DC, with his wife, two children, and dog.
Illustrator
Born and raised in Malaysia, Darren Tan grew up drawing spaceships, dinosaurs and the stuff of his imagination, which was fuelled by movies and computer games. Inspired by these, he went on to study animation and later graduated as a Computer Animator from Sheridan College, Canada. After a brief stint in 3D animation, he decided to trade in polygons for a wacom tablet. Apart from his passion for art and all things Medieval, he is also a big fan of The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and enjoys delving into Church history. He now lives with his beautiful wife in sunny Singapore.
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