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D ubious s harDs

by Kenneth Hite

Book Layout and Design by Philip Reed

Tarot Illustrations and Design by Kenneth Hite

Kenneth Hite l Table of Contents

C ontents

Acknowledgements and Clear Credit ........................................3

Lore ..............................................................................................5

The “How” of Hastur ...................................................................................... 5

The Trail of Dagon ........................................................................................ 15

Irem, the City of Pillars ................................................................................. 19

Vampish Vapours in the Shunned House....................................................... 24

Down to Dunwich ......................................................................................... 30

The Shadow Out of Lovecraft....................................................................... 36

The Winslow Project..................................................................41

2006 Preface.................................................................................................. 41

Keeper’s Information .................................................................................... 43

Investigator’s Information............................................................................. 44

Welcome to Winslow .................................................................................... 47

The Investigators Arrive................................................................................ 59

Courses of Investigation................................................................................ 60

Homecoming Night ....................................................................................... 60

Aftermath ...................................................................................................... 62

NPC Statistics ................................................................................................................ 62

Criticism .....................................................................................66

The Shadow from the Right .......................................................................... 66

The Man Who Shot Joseph Curwen.............................................................. 72

Acknowledgements and Clear Credit l Dubious Shards

a CknowleDgements anD

C lear C reDit

“The ‘How’ of Hastur” appears here for the irst time anywhere. I ran across the Clark Ashton

Smith quote that sparked the whole piece in David E. Schultz’ “Notes Toward a History of the

Cthulhu Mythos” in Crypt of Cthulhu #92. Likewise, “The Man Who Shot Joseph Curwen” is

original to this book. I discovered the connection between Call of Cthulhu and the Western on my

own, but very proitably mined Donald R. Burleson’s “Lovecraft: An American Allegory” in Crypt

of Cthulhu #78 while constructing this piece.

Portions of the essays on Dagon, Irem, the Shunned House vampires, Dunwich, and H.P.

Lovecraft appeared in different form in Pyramid magazine. I’d like to thank the editors and readers

of Pyramid for their support and feedback. Check it out, along with a lot more of my pointless

rambling, at http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid.

“The Winslow Project” is the property of Pagan Publishing, and is published under license from

the Delta Green Partnership. I’d like to thank Adam Scott Glancy for his kind permission to use it in

this collection, and John Tynes for rapid reaction to the incoming PDF.

The review of Michel Houellebecq’s book irst appeared in different form on my LiveJournal:

http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com. I’d like to thank the commenters to that piece. I’d especially

like to thank Robin Laws for pointing me toward the Guardian proile of Houellebecq that rescued

me from a serious mischaracterization. Hell, I’d like to thank Robin Laws in general.

Throughout this entire book, I have leaned without regret on S.T. Joshi’s magisterial biography

of Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, and on his annotated and corrected editions of the tales in three

volumes for Penguin Books. That’s why “Imprisoned With the Pharaohs” appears here as “Under

the Pyramids,” for example.

Call of Cthulhu  is Chaosium, Inc.’s trademarked game of horror and wonder, and the term

is used solely for purposes of illustration. No challenge to Chaosium trademarks is intended or

implied.

I’d also like to thank Trey Reilly of GAMA, without whom this project would not have happened,

and Phil Reed, without whom it would have looked just terrible.

The intellectual property known as Delta Green is trademarked and copyright  2002 the

Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. Dubious Shards , and the Tarot of Cthulhu,

are copyright  2006 by Kenneth Hite, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta

me, you’re taking food out of the bowl of my cat. And we all know what happens to people who do

that, in Ulthar and anywhere else.

Kenneth Hite l Lore

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