Lovecraft Country - Roleplaying Games

Roleplaying Games

Between 1990 and 1998, Chaosium released a number of Lovecraft Country gamebooks for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, series created by author/editor Keith Herber. Most were background supplements which codified descriptions of Lovecraft's named cities, but there were also a number of adventure books. These included:

• Arkham Unveiled (1990)
• Return to Dunwich (1991)
• Kingsport: The City in the Mist (1991)
• Escape from Innsmouth (1992)
• Adventures in Arkham Country (1993)
• Miskatonic University (1994)
• Tales of the Miskatonic Valley
• Dead Reckonings (1998)
• Before the Fall (1998)
• Children of the Deep (unreleased sequel that explored Innsmouth after its fall described in Escape from Innsmouth)

Since 1998, the Lovecraft Country name seems to have fallen out of use at Chaosium, though some of the books have been rereleased in the 2000s (H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich, H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham, and H.P. Lovecraft's Kingsport).

Skotos, an online game company, has licensed Chaosium's Lovecraft Country material. They have produced two games, Lovecraft Country: The Tomb of the Desert God and Lovecraft Country: Arkham by Night, as well as a comic, Lovecraft Country: Return to Arkham, written by Shannon Appelcline.

In 2008, following Chaosium's expanded licensing program for Call of Cthulhu, Keith Herber and Tom Lynch established Miskatonic River Press. The publisher's first release, New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley, which marked both Herber's return to Call of Cthulhu and Lovecraft Country was announced for release in the autumn of 2008.

• New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley (2009)