— The Rising Tentacle

The Epilogue is published – Fear the dark

Fear is the key concept in Lovecraft’s work, it’s what makes it, work! Unmentionable fear, paralysing fear, a fear that eats sanity. Coming up against unmentionable fear (I said don’t mention it!) leads to a loss of sanity.

The Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game uses this concept to good effect and as this first part of The Rising Tentacle comes to a close, our four characters have lost a little sanity. Because they are each strong characters they have managed to package away the unmentionable horror (there you go again!) into a small recess of their mind (does the mind have recesses, maybe it’s a convolution). As for the rest of the inhabitants of Mingsport, they remain clueless but they have learened to fear the dark and maybe, just maybe that is enough!

A small Footnote next month will conclude A Fear Of The Dark,

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