Miskatonic Monday #460: The Harlotville Horror

 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 Harlotville Horror

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Andy Miller

Setting: Jazz Age New Mexico

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Sixty page, 35.90 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Southern Salem’s Lot

Plot Hook: What sickness causes those in Sanguis to suffer?

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, six NPCs, four handouts, six maps and floorplans, five beasts, one Mythos tome, one Mythos spell, and thirteen Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Excellent

Pros

# Inspired by Robert E. Howard’s ‘Pigeons from Hell’

# Ghost town horror in the badlands of New Mexico

# Brings a strange new monster to Call of Cthulhu

# Good staging advice for the Keeper
# Highly detailed, well researched scenario

# Has a certain cinematic muscularity

# Enjoyable playtest notes

# Kinemortophobia

# Nyctophobia

# Agrizoophobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

# Highly detailed, well researched scenario

Conclusion

# Oil and redemption in New Mexico falls victim to murderous misandry

# It is a ghost town for a reason and the Investigators are going to suffer