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Possibly of interest: 'A Sourcebook for the 1920s', which was bundled with some earlier editions of CoC, contained a few timelines of different types of events. The one that interested me the most was the timeline of Forteana, and so over the years as a pet project I created two of my own. Part one runs from 1900 to 1925 and part two from 1926 to 1950. These were based on reports of alleged sightings of sea monsters, UFO, poltergeists and various other oddities gleaned from various sources. I then turned both timelines into their own blog post.

If this sounds like your cup of tea, you can read part one here and part two here.
 
I have been reading a lot of Lovecraft again this month and one thing that does leap out at me is he focuses a lot on minutiae other people would gloss over (a bit like the Larry David of horror). So I taking something fairly mundane and building a horror scenario around it, is pretty good place to start (was just reading Cool Air a couple of weeks ago and it builds essentially around a dripping air conditioner)
 
BedrockBrendan said:
I have been reading a lot of Lovecraft again this month and one thing that does leap out at me is he focuses a lot on minutiae other people would gloss over (a bit like the Larry David of horror). So I taking something fairly mundane and building a horror scenario around it, is pretty good place to start (was just reading Cool Air a couple of weeks ago and it builds essentially around a dripping air conditioner)
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I'm now hoping to one day own a Lovecraft book with this on the cover:
"The Larry David of Horror" -Brendan Davis
 
Meherrin Virginia is a wide spot on the road who's only major claim to fame is the birthplace of Roy Clark.
"Who?"
Hee Haw Roy Clark.

Now there's this place:
www.funguymarket.com

Farm to Table Food - Fun Guy Market

Discover farm freshness, unforgettable flavors, and family fun in Meherrin, VA.
www.funguymarket.com www.funguymarket.com

The owner was all excited about his great idea for a gourmet burger joint. I didn't have the heart to tell him just how old that pun was.

I did have their house special burger, it was pretty good ($15 I should hope so). The best way I can try to describe the taste would be as a "color" sorry I can't get better than that. :hehe:
 
There is, of course, a ToC scenario set just after his death about Jack Parsons and the Thelemites of California that features characters who are a somewhat known and a not-yet-known SF writers named Bob and Phil. Bob and Phil being, of course, Heinlein and Dick. Along with Ginny Heinlein and Tony Boucher.

The Big Hoodoo is a blast, especially when run by someone who knows a bit (or more) about the characters involved.

I've run it twice using the Misery Engine as an early DG (with ONI Agents) opera.
 
From my recent reading:

The currently favored hypothesis for the demise of dinosaurs and end of the age of reptiles is a bolide impact approximately 65 million year ago, [...] an event followed by a fungal bloom, as the earth became a massive compost heap.
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:shock:
So that's how they came to--hey, wait a minute! How dare the fun guys call our space rock a massive compost heap!? No wonder they think they run this place...

In my opinion, if you bring into your game truly Lovecraftian critters that can actually be harmed by human implements, you aren't playing Lovecraftian critters correctly. e.g. You might stomp on a blooming mushroom spore--[insert Time Bandits "Don't touch it!" closing scene here]--but you cannot "kill" the extraterrestrial-collective-mind-sapient form of reality that is mycena.
 
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