Fear's Sharp Little Needles - 26 Modern Day Scenarios
Customers are advised that contents of this book include themes of disease¸ infection¸ and contamination that may upset the reader (and players).
Fear's Sharp Little Needles is an ENnie award winning anthology of 26 one-night modern day scenarios for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game published by Chaosium¸ Inc¸ edited by Jeff Moeller and written by Christopher Smith Adair¸ Glynn Owen Barrass¸ Simon Brake¸ Stuart Boon¸ Chad Bowser¸ Brian Courtemanche¸ Scott Dorward¸ Adam Gauntlett¸ Allan Goodall¸ Helen Gould¸ Tyler Hudak¸ Jo Kreil¸ Jeff Moeller¸ Andi Newton¸ Oscar Rios¸ Brian M. Sammons¸ Matthew Sanderson¸ Jennifer Thrasher¸ Joe Trier¸ Jason Williams¸ Matt Wiseman¸ and Simon Yee¸ with art by Dean Engelhardt¸ Reuben Dodd¸ Badger McInnes¸
Taking its inspirational cues from Delta Green¸ X-Files¸ The Ritual¸ Mandy¸ and True Detective¸ the book takes a mature look at the horror of human nature and its ability to be just as disturbing as anything from the Mythos with blood and its inhuman uses as its theme.
The Scenarios
Separation Anxiety¸ by Jeff Moeller. Disappearances of distinctive looking people stretching back decades leads to an "agritourism" self-pick farm in rural Ohio
Undertow¸ by Simon Brake. A reclusive¸ depressed author lives alone with his black dog on the Californian coast¸ but is tracked down by curious investigators when his new book displays knowledge of the Cthulhu Mythos
Sins of My Youth¸ by Oscar Rios. The investigators are stalked and attacked by a lunatic who seems to inexplicably know everything about them.
Walter's Final Wish¸ by Matt Wiseman & Jennifer Thrasher. Cultist in an oldfolks home uses mythos techniques to brainwash the staff for evil ends.
Whose Fuel is Men and Stones¸ by Jason Williams. Solo adventure where investigator is a potential sacrificial target of middle-eastern cultists who wish to summon Cthugha in London.
Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus¸ by Mat thew Sanderson. Out of the blue¸ the investigators are invited to the reading of the will of a wealthy recluse in Maine. However¸ none of them have ever heard of this person¸ but they definitely need the money.
The Great and Terrible Awto¸ by Jo Kreil. Several individuals who are working on a new concept car are killed in strange and suspicious accidents.
Spilsbury #9485¸ by Adam Gauntlett. A butchered murder victim stuffed in a steamer trunk and left on a train in 1932 keeps turning up again and again throughout the decades¸ and whenever it appears disaster follows as time bends¸ breaks¸ and opens up to alternate dimensions allowing the things From Beyond through.
Lights Out¸ by Joe Trier. Investigations into a teenage girl's murder reveal she had been using a ouija board to contact her dead boyfriend in the weeks before her untimely death; but who had she really been talking to?
Bone Deep¸ by Allan Goodall. A killer who makes off with his victim's body parts leads the investigators to The Bone Collectors¸ a cult of Mordiggian collecting lost knowledge etched into the bones of living humans.
Do Not Call Up That Which You Cannot Put Down¸ by Brian Courtemanche. Investigators discover the Monster of Martin's Beach¸ as first described by H.P. Lovecraft and Sonia Greene in their story "The Invisible Monster" (Weird Tales¸ November 1923 issue).
