Miskatonic Monday #303: Flash Cthulhu – Lost in the Stacks

Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of Arthurian legend and romance, Pendragon, the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition is a curated platform for user-made content. It is thus, “...a new way for creators to publish and distribute their own original Call of Cthulhu content including scenarios, settings, spells and more…” To support the endeavours of their creators, Chaosium has provided templates and art packs, both free to use, so that the resulting releases can look and feel as professional as possible. To support the efforts of these contributors, Miskatonic Monday is an occasional series of reviews which will in turn examine an item drawn from the depths of the Miskatonic Repository.

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Name: Flash Cthulhu – Lost in the Stacks

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Michael Reid

Setting: Coventry, 1947

Product: One-Location, One-Hour Scenario
What You Get: Eight page, 2.22 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “I have a longing for fiction – to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.” – Karl Ove Knausgard

Plot Hook: A hunt for a book turns into a hunt by the book

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, one floorplan, two NPCs, one Mythos tome, and one Mythos spell.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Simple and short

# Slightly tweedy, seedy feel

# Has a growing sense of unreality, literarily

# Bibliophobia

# Pentiliarphobia

# Dementophobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

Conclusion

# Short, punchy, literary race against time

# Looking for a book? The book is looking for you.