I mentioned in my earlier post today that there was a Marvel comics adaptation of "The Thing on the Roof" in issue #3 of Chamber ...

When I restarted the Pulp Fantasy Library series back in September , I did so primarily because I knew I could devote myself to writing abo...

I give Dragonlance a lot of grief  – deservedly so, I think – for the role it played in forever changing both Dungeons & Dragons and the...

First published in the July 1943 issue of  Weird Tales , Robert Bloch’s “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” remains one of the author’s most fam...

For a long time, my Retrospective posts have focused on games and products from the so-called Golden and Silver Ages of Dungeons & Drag...

The so-called Golden Age of the pulps is today remembered primarily for the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smit...

As I noted in my earlier post about  The Grey Knight , now that it’s October, I feel the need to use this months as an opportunity to explor...

There is a particular kind of emotion that, in my experience, is easily forgotten in our world of algorithms and explanations but that once ...

It’s a commonplace criticism of H.P. Lovecraft that his writing is overwrought and I can certainly understand why one might say so. His styl...

This being the only Friday the 13th of 2025, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to muse a little about the spooky stuff I grew up with ...

Serendipity is a real thing. When I decided last week to write a Retrospective post about GDW's 1991 horror RPG, Dark Conspiracy , I ha...

Here's another strangely prescient sidebar from that Dark Conspiracy preview insert that appeared in issue #47 of Challenge   (December...

Here's one of the more evocative sidebars from the Dark Conspiracy preview appearing in issue #47 of Challenge magazine (December 1990)...

My history with roleplaying games is littered with games I desperately wanted to like  but that, for one reason or another – sometimes many ...

From issue #86 (June 1984) of Dragon  comes one of the first advertisements for Pacesetter's horror RPG, Chill , that I ever saw. The ac...

(This month, I'd intended to write a longer post about the domestication of horror and frightening things in our popular media, includin...

I'm a big fan of the horror genre, whether books, movies, or roleplaying games. As a kid growing up in the 1970s, horror and the occult ...