"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd
In one self place; but where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be."
- Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
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- 🎁 Travelling at Night Kindle / eReader cases now live! Available in 6" and 7" sizes, in cursed and uncursed editions. You can select which size you want, but must trust to Fortune with the curse.
- 🤓 Get your nerd on! Steam Workshop - or, the Invisible Serapeum - is now live for Cultist Simulator. We already have 23 mods in place, from full Italian fan-translation to, er, a mod that just takes Laidlaw's shirt off. The future is ours.
- 🃏 Zingara fortune-telling cards announced for the Church o' Merch, a gilded, pocket-sized alternative to the Tarot of the Hours. Check out the deck in progress in our latest sprint update.
- 🎵 30 mins of narrative worldbuilding in "An Inheritance of Stones", the latest Skeleton Songs episode. Tolkien! Gormenghast! Flesh-spicing! More!
- 🐙 We ran a #lovecraftday competition that culminated in us sending a skeletal raven to a lady in Finland. It's just what HP would have wanted.
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NOOK OF SPOOK: Cabal, Part 1: The Caldecotts (1996)
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"The Only Egg, humming merrily away to itself in a long-forgotten secret room, causes other side effects too: the seasons behave strangely around Caldecott House, decay may occur unnaturally fast or not at all, and birds often lay eggs with shells of bone, crystal or silver (in these cases, the chicks inside cannot escape and never hatch)."
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Never-before-seen juvenilia from Alexis Kennedy, before he won all those awards for writing games. This TRPG-centric article was published in 1996 in Valkyrie, a British role-playing magazine. Alexis describes three cultish groups, their supposed history, and some potential scenarios in which they might appear. There's a lot of proto- Fallen London and Cultist Simulator here.
The full article includes two more cults: the Denied, and the Society of Simon. More on them in future newsletters!
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You've probably already read this, or at least watched the brilliant TV version starring sparkly Mark Rylance. But if you haven't, it's a beautifully realised literary retelling of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power under the reign of Henry VIII - and a relevant commentary on how rubbish populist dictators are. 🙃
Mantel's a big fan of Mary Renault, one of Alexis's major literary influences. See if you think she reads at all like him!
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