From issue #86 (June 1984) of Dragon comes one of the first advertisements for Pacesetter's horror RPG, Chill, that I ever saw. The accompanying artwork, by the late, great Jim Holloway, is quite effective, though it's a bit unclear where the mutton-chopped fellow is standing. Is he standing in an open grave? If so, where's that sinister hand coming from? If he's not, where are the gentleman's legs? So many questions!
I think the idea is he fell prone -- probably tripped running -- and as he's starting to push himself up on hands and elbows, the hand erupts from the ground in front of him.
ReplyDeleteThat could well have been the intention – though his posture still looks odd to me.
DeleteAh Chill. The red-headed stepchild to Call of Cthulhu. I did buy the game rules and some supplements for Chill back in the day, but compared to CoC, I thought it fell short. To me, CoC is like John Carpenter's The Thing, while Chill is like Fright Night. Bot scary in their own right, but I prefer cosmic horror to well...standard horror.
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