Cthulhu's Dark Cults
| Editor | David Conyers |
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| Cover artist | Steven Gilberts |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Call of Cthulhu Fiction |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Chaosium |
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Publication date
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May 6, 2010 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 256 pp |
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| OCLC | 223818171 |
Cthulhu’s Dark Cults is an anthology edited by David Conyers, containing ten Cthulhu Mythos short stories set in Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu role-playing game setting. All the stories take place during the 1920s and 1930s, the era in which the game is set.
All ten stories in Cthulhu’s Dark Cults are linked by Cthulhu Mythos cults and characters that first appeared in Call of Cthulhu gaming supplements such as Masks of Nyarlathotep, Horror on the Orient Express, Shadows of Yog-sothoth, The Fungi from Yuggoth, Secrets of Kenya, Secrets of New York and others. The ten stories are:
The book is introduced by David Conyers and dedicated to the memory of Keith Herber. The plot summaries of the ten stories with references to the gaming supplements that influenced each tale are:
The Eternal Chinaman: In San Francisco 1920 a stage magician hires his brother to protect him from a Tong-style cult. The story features Lang Fu who first appeared in the gaming supplement The Fungi from Yuggoth. The name of the story is derived from a description in H.P. Lovecraft’s tale The Call of Cthulhu in reference to a cult of sorcerers who live in the mountains of China planning the downfall of humanity.
Captains of Industry: In Boston 1921 union members of a washing machine manufacturing company break into the lodge of a secretive order called the Hermetic Order of the Silver Twilight, hoping to gather incriminating evidence on their boss who is a member with the Lodge so they have a bargaining point to improve their working conditions. The story features Carl Stanford and John Scott who first appeared in the gaming supplement Shadows of Yog-sothoth and Ambrose Mogens who first appeared in Secrets of New York.
Perfect Skin: In Istanbul 1922 a British couple are enjoying their honeymoon until the husband goes missing, presumably kidnapped by the Brotherhood of the Skin, a cult that first appeared in the gaming supplement Horror on the Orient Express.
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