Chaosium Digest Volume 28, Number 12
Date: Thursday, November 4, 1999
Number: 1 of  1

Contents:

* Movies to Have in Mind.... (CTHULHU) by Chris Hodgson

Editor's Note:

Due to a lack of submissions, the Halloween issue fizzled.
Ah, well...

Moving on, this issue presents a list of movies, compiled by
Chris Hodgson, that can help players and GMs get a feel for
that 1920's-30's style. In addition, it's a list of very
good movies. If you haven't seen at least one of them, do so
soon. I'd also add _Haunted_ starring Aiden Quinn and Sir
John Guilgud (sp?).

Lastly, as always, we need more submissions. Keep them
coming!

RECENT AND UPCOMING RELEASES

>>>OCTOBER/NOVEMBER Release

For Call of Cthulhu Fiction:

>The Yellow Sign & Other Tales
6023 $19.95 ISBN 1-56882-126-3
by Robert W. Chambers

This massive collection brings together, for the first time
ever and with much of the material unprinted since the
1890s, the entire body of Robert W. Chambers' weird fiction
work. Chambers is considered a landmark author in the horror
field for his _King in Yellow_ collection, but that is just
a small part of his weird fiction output. The Yellow Sign &
Other Stories brings together tales from five different
Chambers collections, and also includes the novel _In Search
of the Unknown_ and an excerpt from the novel _The Tracer of
Lost Persons_. These stories are also connected to the
Cthulhu mythos, for they
introduce concepts such as Hali, Hastur, and Carcosa.
Selected and edited by S.T. Joshi.


>>>NOVEMBER/DECEMBER Release

For Call of Cthulhu Fiction:

>Nameless Cults
6028 $15.95 ISBN 1-56882-130-1
by Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard is the world-renowned author of the Conan
series and the stories that were the basis of the recent
Kull movie. He also was one of H.P. Lovecraft's frequent
correspondents, and an author of many pivotal Mythos tales.
This book collects together all of Howard's Mythos tales,
including the tales that originated Gol-Goroth,
Unausspreclichen Kulten, and Friedrich Von Junzt. Also
included in this book are articles by L. Sprague de Camp,
Robert Price, Lin Carter, and others, discussing Robert
Howard and his effect on the horror and fantasy genres.

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Movies to Have in Mind....

There is a well known list of movies used as source material
(horror movies, gangster movies)  for CoC but I've myself
compiling a list of sources not necessarily useful as plot
but as pointers to background, suggesting to players
clothes, music, setting, motives themes and the era in
general.

This is particularly useful to British players. The world of
the 20's portrayed in REMAINS OF THE DAY is now (thankfully)
a landscape as alien to current Brits as it is to the rest
of the world

"These are films to have in mind when you generate your
characters......."

US - 20's + 30's

SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
THE FRONT PAGE (Lemon + Mathau version)
HUDSUCKER PROXY
GREAT GATSBY
GRAPES OF WRATH
CITIZEN KANE
CHINATOWN

There are plenty more obviously but the above strike a
balance of background detail, popularity and watchability
for me


UK + EMPIRE - 20's + 30's

REMAINS OF THE DAY
LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
JEEVES + WOOSTER (PG Woodhouse)
JEWEL IN THE CROWN
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
MICHAEL COLLINS



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