Miskatonic Monday #339: The Exhibition of Dread

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: The Exhibition of Dread

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Jared Tallis & The Stars Are Right

Setting: Modern Day Boston, USA

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Forty-five page, 4.97 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Life is art
Plot Hook: What do you do if the haunting for inspiration becomes a haunting for real?

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, three NPCs, two handouts, one map, and one (or more) Mythos monster(s).

Production Values: Good

Pros

# One-session, one-shot

# Challengingly creative end scene

# Atmospheric haunting

# Nice map and decent handouts

# Phasmophobia

# Ososphobia

# Aportaldislexicartaphobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Pre-generated Investigators underdeveloped

# Two good halves, barely connected

Conclusion

# Art or die decision

# Too good halves do not make an engaging whole