Miskatonic Monday #465: Cosa Nostra Conflagration

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: Cosa Nostra Conflagration

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Nick Olivo

Setting: Boston, 1923

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Fifteen page, 861.33 KB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Extortion fuelled by the fires of madness

Plot Hook: A strange death and a strange burning in the North End

Plot Support: Staging advice, eight NPCs, two handouts, one map, four Mythos tomes, and one Mythos spell.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Short, focused scenario for Pulp Cthulhu: Two-fisted Action and Adventure Against the Mythos

# Likely to end in either becoming one of the family or a confrontational conflagration 

# Easy to adjust to other eras and cities

# Easy to prepare and run
# Easy to add to a campaign

# Pyrophobia

# Rhabdophobia
# Scelerophobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

Conclusion

# One session investigation into a strange arson with a fiery finale

# Quick and easy to prepare

Miskatonic Monday #464: The Horror at Right Hook

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 Horror at Right Hook

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Elizabeth Hildick

Setting: New York, 1929

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Twenty-Seven page, 6.39 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.” – F.X. Toole

Plot Hook: The horror of the ultimate bout in the ring

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, six NPCs, one handout, one map, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Brutal boxing ring drama in New York meets monster hunting upstate

# Physical investigation with lots fights

# Easy to adjust to other eras and settings

# Scope for a sequel?

# Solid set pieces

# Athlemophobia

# Hemophobia
# Traumatophobia

Cons

# It is a scenario about blood sports

# An Investigator never gets to fight ‘beasts’ in the ring

# Leaves the fate of the secret society unaddressed

Conclusion

# Bruising investigation into fight exploitation in the Jazz Age 

# Scope for a sequel with some of the unresolved plot lines

Miskatonic Monday #462: The Wolf in the Labyrinth

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 Wolf in the Labyrinth

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Malcolm Harbrow

Setting: Jazz Age Arkham, USA

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Twenty-two page, 1.31 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

Plot Hook: A locked room, missing persons case.  
Plot Support: Staging advice, eleven NPCs, seven handouts, and one Mythos artefact.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Classic Call of Cthulhu art as artefact horror

# Can be run as part of a Miskatonic University campaign 

# Easy to adjust to other cities

# Solidly detailed investigation

# Part of the Miskatonic Repository Halloween 2026 Collection

# Artophobia

# Diokophobia
# Cleithrophobia

Cons

# No NPC stats

Conclusion

# Familiar plot for Call of Cthulhu, but decently done  

# Can be run without NPC stats, but Keeper will have to add them if she wants them

Miskatonic Monday #461: No Silver Linings

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: No Silver Linings

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Mark Corrigan

Setting: Co. Tipperary, Ireland, 1919

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Thirty-four page, 3.66 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Mystery & Murder on the Mountain by Moonlight

Plot Hook: If a man has been dead for months, can he die again?
Plot Support: Staging advice, six NPCs, six handouts, three maps, and five Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Solid investigation with strong social element

# Can be run in conjunction with Cthulhu Ireland

# Easy to adjust to other eras

# Scope for a sequel?

# Argyrophobia

# Kinemortophobia
# Selenophobia

Cons

# Slightly odd art

Conclusion

# Solid investigation that is easy to run and add to a campaign

# Suitable for a Cthulhu Ireland campaign

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

Miskatonic Monday #456: Blank Canvas

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: Blank Canvas: A Duet for Call of Cthulhu

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Steve Anderson

Setting: Arkham, USA

Product: One-shot

What You Get: Thirty-four page, 8.52 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” – Frank Barron

Plot Hook: The death of an artist must be important. If only you could remember why?  
Plot Support: Staging advice, three pre-generated Investigators, four NPCs, four handouts, twelve portraits, two Mythos tomes, and one Mythos spell.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# One Keeper, one Investigator scenario

# Pleasing adjustments to fit the twenties, fifties, and eighties

# Surprising degree of research

# Easy to adjust to other cities

# Part of the Miskatonic Repository Halloween 2026 Collection

# Artophobia

# Neophobia
# Athazagoraphobia

Cons

# Surprising degree of research

Conclusion

# Classic, but well done amnesia to revelation scenario 

# When the madness of the muse is the madness
# Reviews from R’lyeh Recommends

Miskatonic Monday #452: Of Them

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: Of Them

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Aleksi Martikainen, Sean Liddle, Jef Wilkins, Jukka Särkijärvi, and Petri Leinonen

Setting: Minnesota, 1921

Product: One-on-One Scenario

What You Get: Twenty-two page, 3.32 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: How far can a father trust a son when the son is in pain?

Plot Hook: My son is missing!
Plot Support: Staging advice, two NPCs, three handouts, three maps, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Spiritual sequel to Of Fathers

# One Investigator, one Keeper scenario

# Linear and straightforward to run

# Compartmentalised scenes easy to run

# Explores the consequences of the father’s choice

# Can be used as the background for an Investigator

# Great maps

# Eisoptrophobia

# Dermatophobia

# Capgras Delusion

Cons

# Linear plotting

# No Pre-generated Investigator(s)

Conclusion

# Clearly mapped out

# Underplayed, but desperately personal encounter with the Mythos

Miskatonic Monday #451: Something Smells Fishy

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: Something Smells Fishy

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Ignacio Campos

Setting: Massachusetts, 1924

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Seven page, 3.84 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: If the Buffy the Vampire Slayer ‘Go Fish’ episode was written for Call of Cthulhu

Plot Hook: The swim team is being killed off just before the state championships
Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, six NPCs, two Mythos tomes, and three Mythos monsters (but plenty more in the sea).

Production Values: Good

Pros

# High school horror as the swim team splits apart

# Multiple endings considered—Will the Investigators keep the secret, flee, or destroy it?

# Thalassophobia

# Ichthyophobia

# Teraphobia (Internal and External)

Cons

# No maps

# Linear plotting

# Original staging, unoriginal plotting

Conclusion

# Could a title not be more apt?

# If your inspiration is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, why not run it using Bunny The Eldritch Slayer? 

Miskatonic Monday #442: The Drowned Thorn

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 Drowned Thorn

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Stuart McNair

Setting: Lancashire Coast, 1926

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Ninety-Four page, 107.00 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: The secrets of the sands, fear of the foreshore.

Plot Hook: A missing rifleman on the shifting shore.
Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, 

sixteen NPCs, six handouts, three maps,  and three Mythos entities and monsters.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Littoral horror where the intertidal edge keeps shifting

# Brilliantly nebulous

# Well worked through conclusion that presents the players and Investigators with concrete options

# Useful set of extra locations

# Decent handouts

# Thalassophobia

# Ammosophobia

# Epistemophobia

Cons

# Annoyingly repetitious in its use of NPC descriptors

# Needs an edit

# Brilliantly nebulous

Conclusion

# Challengingly off-kilter and nebulous environmental scenario whose sparseness may be difficult to impart

# The investigators will have to supply the emotion and thus the contrast

Miskatonic Monday #432: The Bail Jumper of St.Isidore

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 Bail Jumper of St.Isidore

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Alexander Nachaj

Setting: Canada, 1928

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-four page, 1.86 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A missing artefact leads to a missing man leads to a man eater

Plot Hook: When a monster crosses your path...
Plot Support: Staging advice, five handouts, four NPCs, one map, one Mythos spell, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Tidy.

Pros

# Very straightforward investigation
# Easy to slot into an existing campaign
# Easy to adjust to other times and places

# Easy to run as a convention scenario

# Plays to the Private Detective tropes

# Entertaining NPCs

# Boxophobia

# Gynophobia

# Diokophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Very straightforward investigation

# Plays to the Private Detective clichés

# Handouts are text handouts, even for the photographs

Conclusion

# Straightforward investigation with some entertaining NPCs

# Plays to the tropes and clichés of the Private Detective genre and is easy to adapt

Miskatonic Monday #426: Private Dining

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: Private Dining

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Hayley P

Setting: New York, 1926

Product: One shot
What You Get: Sixteen-page, 1.61 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Fine dining turns into a fight against the fungicidal façade!

Plot Hook: The dinner must go on... 

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, six NPCs, two handouts, and lots of infected.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Zombie-uprising-style scenario, but over dinner

# The investigators really can fight it with fire

# Best served with dinner, not the fungus

# Easy to adjust to other times and cities

# Mycophobia

# Kinemortophobia

# Pyrophobia

Cons

# Plain maps

Conclusion

# Fight the fungus with fire!
# A zombie-uprising scenario by any other name

Miskatonic Monday #419: Broken Dreams

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: Broken Dreams

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: John Almack

Setting: Jazz Age Kingsport and beyond

Product: One-on-one scenario
What You Get: Eighteen page, 1.98 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Nothing happens unless we first dream.” — Carl Sandburg

Plot Hook: A damsel in distress in the Dreamlands

Plot Support: Staging advice, one pre-generated Investigator, two NPCs, two handouts, one map, and twenty-four Dreamlands inhabitants and/or monsters.

Production Values: Serviceable

Pros

# One Investigator, One Keeper rescue mission into the Dreamlands

# Easy to replace the pre-generated Investigator (or add another)

# Is the pre-generated Investigator a stand-in for Lovecraft?

# Classic fairy tale quest, but for Call of Cthulhu

# Good for nights in between sessions

# Oneirophobia

# Goblinphobia

# Zoophobia

Cons

# Straightforward quest-type tale

Conclusion

# A fairy tale in the Dreamlands

# Solid, one-on-one scenario given a couple of genre twists

Miskatonic Monday #416: Welcome to Silkwood Motel

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: Welcome to Silkwood Motel

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Niebosky

Setting: Jazz Age USA

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Nine-page, 9.45 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Arachnophobia at the Bates Motel

Plot Hook: A dark and stormy night forces a last stay at the Silkwood Motel

Plot Support: Staging advice, one NPC, one floorplan, and one Mythos monster and a swarm of Mythos monsters!

Production Values: Solid

Pros

# Very short, creepy session, suitable as a side trek or encounter in between longer scenarios.

# Suitable for small groups, but necessarily a single Investigator

# Would work with Spawn of Azathoth

# Easily adapted to other countries and eras

# Arachnophobia

# Daknophobia

# Tokophobia

Cons

# Floorplans hard to read

Conclusion

# Single session, harrowing encounter that will put the put the Investigators off lonely motels
# Easy to slip into a campaign or between scenarios.