1990's Handbook
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The horrors lurking in the modern world are often a synthesis of the mundane and the monstrous. For example¸ the concept of snuff films is monstrous¸ but with such a strong foundation of mundane movies full of graphic sex and violence¸ we can easily believe in their existence even if we have not seen them ourselves. Susan Smith was to all appearances a loving mother¸ yet she sent the car with her two young sons in it into a lake and let them drown. If these are part of our world¸ what other¸ less understandable¸ horrors must be waiting for us?
The ideas presented in this book attempt to be both mundane and fantastic at the same time - plausibility is the key. It is in the details that the horror lies¸ because it is in the credibility of the details that the fantastic can rise and stand.
This¸ then¸ is a book of details¸ most mundane¸ some fantastic. They have but one purpose - that of bringing Lovecraft's horror home to us here and now. THE 1990s HANDBDOK is a revision of Cthulhu Now¸ and brings CALL OF CTHULHU into the mid-1990s. New equipment detailed includes surveillance paraphernalia¸ computers¸ and lethal and non-lethal weapons. The roles of the government¸ the military¸ the police¸ and crime in the modern world are discussed. An optional hit location system is presented. Several scenario storylines are given.