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Shipping will be charged once the books are with the printers, and we have a confirmed shipping date.
Both books are at the manuscript first draft stage, and so we expect to be able to ship the final PDFs in August 2025, and the print books in November 2025.
Both books are US letter sized (8.5" x 11").
We have dedicated shipping points in the USA and UK. EU orders are shipped in an EU-friendly way from our UK warehouse. We are getting quotes from a Canadian shipper to reduce the cost of Canadian orders, and looking for an Oceania shipper to help reduce the cost of orders for our ANZ community.
A monstrous alien titan that seeped down from space millions of years ago, and now slumbers in the tomb-city of R'lyeh until the stars come right and he lives again to ravage and destroy. Even now, his psychic dreams compel people across the world to worship him and work for his return. He’s part of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, a shared story-cycle of cosmic horror.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1935) is perhaps the most influential horror writer of the 20th century. Arguing that the old horrors of ghosts, vampires and werewolves were no longer disturbing, Lovecraft looked to scientific revelations about the vast scale of space and time to inspire new horrors.
Yes, absolutely. Mixed in with his horror of seafood and 18th-century architecture was a fear of anyone who wasn’t an upper-class white New Englander. But TRAIL OF CTHULHU is a 21st century tabletop roleplaying game that welcomes all players. We have adapted Lovecraft's mythology to emphasize the common doom of all humanity equally.
Finding the clues is only the first step in solving a mystery – the investigators must still piece those disparate clues together to work out what’s going on, and then decide how to deal with the threat.
Trail of Cthulhu is published by arrangement with Chaosium, Inc. (chaosium.com) Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium Inc., and the Chaosium logo are registered trademarks of Chaosium Inc. Used with permission. Call of Cthulhu © 1981–2024 Chaosium Inc. All rights reserved.
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