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It's scarier than the others, but a little less creative in forcing the main character (a young woman who has escaped prison) into the story itself, in a sort of gothica/misery movie scenario. The story itself is bland, but the narrative of the play i... Read More
All of the cities are near lake hali. Hali (the guy, not the lake, harkening back to bierce) is a necromancer trying to undo the curse of the undead.
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Quality
We finally get back to hastur with the return of hastur by august derleth
The hastur cycle begins to stray with the novel of the black seal by arthur machen
Which is a bit of an assumption in the first place that anything in the king in yellow has to do with the victorianera
Like with any analogy the stoires vary in quality but there are some good ones here
Competitiveness
Other highlights are machens the novel of the black seal and lovecrafts whisperer in the dark
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Another of chaosiums attempts to create order from the chaotic allusional stew that forms the socalled cthulhu mythos
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The second edition of editor robert m
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Chambers the yellow sign and the repairer of reputations arthur machens the novel of the black seal plus a pair of short pieces by ambrose bierce
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My own favorites among the newer stories include james blishs more light which presents the actual text of chambers insanityproducing play the king in yellow karl edward wagners decadent the river of nights dreaming and richard a
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Lupoffs sly satire on starrywisdom new age sects documents in the case of elizabeth akeley
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Most valuable among these is joseph payne brennans the feaster from afar from the rare first edition of the disciples of cthulhu 1976 unavailable for twenty years
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The hastur cycle was the first and one of the best of the series of cycle books from chaosium publisher of the call of cthulhu roleplaying game
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Price editor of the essential anthologies tales of the lovecraft mythos new lovecraft circle and acolytes of cthulhu and former editor of the journal crypt of cthulhu
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