Set in Boston, Providence, the British Isles, continental Europe, and the Middle East, none of the scenarios need be played at set dates or in a set order, but they could be run in the order presented to form a loose campaign using optional link between scenarios to draw investigators from one to the other.

Artist of the macabre, Richard Upton Pickman, is now a ghoul living a subterranean netherworld beneath Boston creating a new school of art.

There are several ways that player characters might be drawn into investigating his macabre activities and, while dangerous, Pickmans intent is not particularly lethal.

The difficulty for investigators will be to resolve the situation without becoming compromised.

Hired by professors of Miskatonic University, the investigator seek out a fabled crystal with origins in Ancient Egypt, but they soon find a far greater evil lurks in an abandoned church in Providence.

This scenario originally appeared in Different Worlds issue 34, MayJune 1984, and has been expanded and revised in this publication.

The previous owners, the decadent occultists from Lovecrafts The Hound, are dead, as that tale recounts, but what they unearthed in a Holland churchyard has grown strong, and has schemes of its own to fulfill.

The amount of danger the investigators face is dependent on how determined they are not to let this Necronomicon fall into the wrong hands.

The search is imperiled by a creature that a Jermyn brought back from the Congo some three hundred years ago that haunts the mansion seeking a human vessel for its escape.

This scenario requires investigators to risk their bodies and their minds as, in the midst of the desolate ruins of Irem, the investigators learn something of the nature of the Great Old Ones, and perhaps forestall the rising of Cthulhu from his watery grave.

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Pickman Saves The Kingdom