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FOR MATURE GAMERS
Dedications
Stephanie:
To all those who struggle with their own personal horror every day.
Jeff:
To Cookie, who left me alone from house chores long enough.
Badger:
To Michael, who continues to inspire me after all these years.
FEAR’S SHARP LITTLE NEEDLES
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similarity between characters in this book and entities who are living, dead, angelic, demonic, bacterial, machine-based, spectral,
children of nature, infested by extra-dimensional spawn, made up for Hallowe’en, imaginary, virtual, fat-sucking alien boogey-
men, oneiric, evil frickin’ sock monkey, or otherwise not quite right, is entirely coincidental.
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TWENTY SIX HAUNTING FORAYS INTO HORROR
WRITTEN BY
Christopher Smith Adair, Glynn Owen Barrass, Simon Brake, Stuart Boon,
Chad Bowser, Brian Courtemanche, Scott Dorward, Adam Gauntlett,
Allan Goodall, Helen Gould, Tyler Hudak, Jo Kreil, Jeff Moeller,
Andi Newton, Oscar Rios, Brian M. Sammons, Matthew Sanderson, Jennifer
Thrasher, Joe Trier, Jason Williams, Matt Wiseman, and Simon Yee
EDlTOR
Jeff Moeller
HANDOUTS
Dean Engelhardt
INTERIOR ART
Reuben Dodd and Stephanie McAlea
COPY EDlTOR
Chitin Proctor
DESIGN AND LAYOUT
Badger McInnes
COVER ART
George C. Cotronis
CARTOGRAPHY
Stephanie McAlea
COVER DESIGN
Stephanie McAlea
LADY OF CHAOS AND HIGH MUCKETY-MUCK AT STYGIAN FOX
Stephanie McAlea
Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
Separation Anxiety
by Jeffrey Moeller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Disappearances of distinctive looking people
stretching back decades leads to an “agritourism”
self-pick farm in rural Ohio; J-horror influenced.
The Great and Terrible Awto
A scientist who is working on a new experimental car is
attacked in a strange accident, to cover the fact that the
car will soon be a new body/avatar for Nyarlathotep’s
Mask, the Tick-Tock Man.
by Jo Kreil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Undertow
by Simon Brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
A reclusive, depressed author lives alone with his black
dog on the Californian coast, but is tracked down
by curious investigators when his new book displays
knowledge of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Spilsbury #9485
by Adam Gauntlett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
A butchered murder victim stuffed in a steamer
trunk and left on a train in 1932 keeps turning up
again and again throughout the decades, and when-
ever it appears, disaster follows.
Sins of My Youth
by Oscar Rios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The investigators are stalked and
attacked by a lunatic who seems to
know everything about them.
Lights Out
by Joe Trier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Investigations into a teenage girl’s disappearance
reveal she had been using a Ouija board to contact
her dead boyfriend in the week before she van-
ished; but who had she really been talking to?
Walter’s Final Wish
by Matt Wiseman &
Jennifer Thrasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A cultist in an old-folks home brain-
washes the staff into believing that
the residents are zombies.
Bone Deep
by Allan Goodall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
A killer who makes off with his victim’s body
parts leads the investigators to The Bone Collec-
tors, a cult of Mordiggian collecting lost knowl-
edge etched into the bones of living humans.
Whose Fuel is Men and Stones
Solo adventure where the investigator is a
potential sacrificial target of Middle-Eastern
cultists to summon Cthugha in London.
by Jason Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Do Not Call Up That Which You
Cannot Put Down
by Brian Courtemanche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Investigators encounter the Monster
of Martin’s Beach, and are put to a
fateful choice.
Pulvis et Umbra Sumus
by Matthew Sanderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
A sorcerer, believing the human race has lost
its right to exist, binds Quachil Uttaus (at the
cost of her own life) to the investigators so that
they can spread the God’s destructive touch
wherever they go.
Hit and Run
by Tyler Hudak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
The investigators get drawn into the aftermath
of the hit and run death of a child; a grieving
family member has turned to the Mythos for
revenge.
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