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I pity the Yule

Wishing everyone a delightful Halloween! We're pleased to offer up a couple of fun-size treats: free poems by Edgar Allan Poe! store.hplhs.org/products/poe...

I hear this entire synopsis in my head like this scene with Jean Ralphio: youtube.com/shorts/mD5qB...

Shout-out to @tidalwavegames.com for letting me run @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social's fantastic #CallOfCthulhu oneshot "The Dare" for their home table last night! It's the second time I've run it, and it went wildly different than last time. I had an absolute blast!

In 1853 the city of Worcester decided to have the long-closed burying ground on Worcester Common laid flat. While some of the stones (and remains) have since been moved, many remain. I was interviewed about it in my local newspaper… www.telegram.com/story/lifest...

I remember you, I crashed your wedding With some orange crepe paper and some Halloween candy youtu.be/PfEuVIlwglA?...

I love it when a book of gravestone inscriptions includes illustrations so detailed I can potentially ID the carver. More like this please! From “OLD TOMBSTONES UNUSUAL CEMETERIES IN COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK” by Gerda E. Divine (1973)

Tea and an organized bookshelf?! Progress!

Today my Call of Cthulhu scenario "Sun Spots" is Deal of the Day on DTRPG. It was written in collaboration by gaming legend Keith 'Doc' Herber and contains dozens of illustrations by the amazing Reuben Dodd! legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/2252...

The party comes together and the investigation takes shape…

In a twist perhaps familiar to Call of Cthulhu players, a side investigation of mine has uncovered evidence that a gravestone carver though to have died in 1771 in Pennsylvania lived at least to 1778, perhaps longer, in New York State. www.longmeadowhistoricalsociety.org/post/william...

My annual listen as October begins and Halloween beckons - “All Saints’ Eve” by Leah Bodine Drake (published by Arkham House in 1950) as read by Vincent Price. It’s like the essence of the season in 80 seconds: youtu.be/0X-XzHTkOy0?...

Our Arkham series - The Queen of the Night - returns for part two! Join us for a terrifying phone call and so much more. directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... #callofcthulhu #horror #ttrpg #actualplay

Release day is here and our Queen of the Night is coming! We hope you join us for this special tale. Huge thanks to @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social for requesting we take up this story! It's been great fun so far.

I believe this will be the first actual play of our scenario “The Queen of Night” (from Arkham Gazette 3, by @umlauthuth.bsky.social and myself) I am VERY excited.

I don’t know who changed the timeline so that egg nog is for sale in mid-September, but thanks, I guess.

This year I’ve been helping out a small team trying to identify the unknown gravestone carver James Slater dubbed “Greek Girl”. Turns out there were probably 3 carvers; Sylvanus Walker Jr., his son Calvin Walker, and another yet to be IDed. 1/

The Old Ways podcast crew will be doing a run-through of our scenario “The Queen of Night” (from Arkham Gazette 3) starting 9/15 I can wait to listen! www.patreon.com/posts/138281... @oldwaysmichael.bsky.social

From the New England Folklore blog: “Books Bound in Human Skin & their New England connections” (missed this one back in July. Whoops! newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2025/07/book...

Footstone and headstone of Jenny Ulmer (d. 1800), Tolman Cemetery, Rockland Maine. Carved by an unknown amateur carver I have dubbed the Rockland Bulb Carver. The footstone has their distinctive crude figure while the headstone has a rough attempt at an urn.

The adjectival form of Trebizond is ‘Trapezuntine’. (Also, William Miller’s ‘Trebizond: the Last Greek Empire” is a hell of a read. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...)

The latest update about our bestiary of New England’s creatures from legend and folklore. Illustrations by @umlauthuth.bsky.social and @nightjargames.bsky.social sentinelhillpress.com/2025/08/11/n...

It’s pathetic the Kennedy Center’s lifetime achievement awards this year would have been the lineup of a sub-par episode of Solid Gold in 1981. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

We’ve reached that point where the Venn diagram for Delta Green scenario prompts and Paranoia scenario prompts have started to overlap. theonion.com/rfk-jr-manda...

Curious about how our New England folkloric bestiary is progressing? Wonder now longer and read the update: (In short, we’re hip-deep in Cryptids!) sentinelhillpress.com/2025/08/11/n...

The index for the Folk Art Museum’s gravestone castings collection IDs this figure as a “rooster” on the gravestone of Leonard Chester, d. 1648 in Wethersfield CT. Not sure I’m buying that but will definitely repurpose in our Bestiary project…

While watching “The Peacemaker” (1997; Clooney & Kidman) I stood up, shouted at the screen “Where the fuck did he come from?! This movie fucking sucks!” It was a fair assessment. Biggest audience cheer: when the heroes remembered they had a giant damn chain sword in Pacific Rim.

“Goose”, the “giant” lizard has been caught, thus ending the saga… for now. www.telegram.com/story/news/2...

And now it is on the move, crossing into Connecticut. Check out this article from Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Escaped water monitor lizard crosses state line; reportedly sighted in Connecticut www.telegram.com/story/news/l...

Update - 5 ft. Komodo dragon remains on the loose: www.telegram.com/story/news/2...

For the sake of our New England Cryptids project, I’m kind of hoping this lizard never gets caught. (“Giant” here being a very relative measure. Few water monitors even reach 6’.) www.yahoo.com/news/giant-l...

Was in Boston for a minute. While the Central Burying Ground on Boston Common isn’t the most exciting graveyard in town it is the burial place of “Chow Manderein”, likely the earliest grave marker for an Asian person in the US. sentinelhillpress.com/2018/10/11/g...

I have been meaning to pick this book up for a while: Witch Bottles by @danharms.bsky.social The definitive overview of this early modern ritual magic practice. Highly recommended.

“…sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero? …Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there.” youtu.be/_OdiY1yHrD8?...

Recently I was trying to explain the Daleks to one of my kid and I realized they’re a lot like a certain variety of internet crazy caps lock is always down, they order everyone around, they are delusionally self important, want to EX-TER-MIN-ATE! everyone, and really dislike doctors.

The New England folklore blog recently posted about a few mentions of Rhode Island witch tales in the letters of HP Lovecraft. Even better, they trace them back to their possible origins in 19th century newspaper stories. newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2025/06/hp-l...

This feels like an untapped scenario hook… www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new...

Curious about the history of whaling in New England? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

The latest episode is now live and all about the folklore of grave markings: www.folkloringpodcast.com/2275302/epis... #folklore #folkloring #tombstones #headstones #gravestones #gravemarkings #graveyard #cemetery #mausoleum #grave #memorial

The Curious Yankee newsletter takes a look at the story behind the "Barnard Catamount" -- it's now on display at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. curiousyankee.substack.com/p/the-barnar...

Headstone of Dorothy Lyman, d. 1787. Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley MA. Carved by Ebenezer Janes.

Gravestone of Peg, “a Negro Serv’t to Henry Bull Esq’r” who died in 1740 at the age of 6. She is buried in Newport, Rhode Island. The stone appears to have been carved sometime around the late 1710s by John Stevens I, and it bears the faint lettering of an old inscription beneath the current one.

Gravestone of the Rev. Samuel Kendall, 1792, in New Salem, Massachusetts. Carved by Ebenezer Felton.

Ye gads

Chaosium Con 2025 (the USA version) is this coming weekend and we will be there! Come find us in the vendor hall with our friends (and fellow Call of Cthulhu licensees) Geekach, @nightfall.games, @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social, Sixtystone Press, Sons of the Singularity, and Stygian Fox Publishing.

Headstone of Caleb Blanchard, d. 1753. Old Dunstable Cemetery, Nashua NH.

From the New England Folklore blog: Brookline's Haunted Schoolhouse: Stalked by an Angry Ghost newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2025/04/broo...

Had a lovely time chatting with @david-sokolowski.bsky.social of the Miskatonic University Podcast about my favorite dream-haunted village Kingsport! Give it a listen: www.mu-podcast.com/mup-ep-320-m...