Trixie’s Secret Diary: It’s late Friday night and we are just sooo pooped. We return to our boat, the Dark Mistress, which has been ransacked – numerous items stolen by two westerners – Aussies. Never trust ‘em, honey! We have Hamza, an acolyte of the Black Pharaoh who tells us about a ritual taking place…
Category: Cthulhu
47: Mad Dogs and Investigators
Black monstrous bridges across oily rivers, Cobwebs of cable by nameless Cthulhu spun; Catacomb deeps whose dank chaos delivers Streams of live foetor, that rots in the sun. Colour and splendour, disease and decaying, Shrieking and ringing and scrambling insane, Rabbles exotic to stranger-gods praying, Jumbles of odour that stifle the brain. (Adapted excerpt “The Cats”…
46: Curiosity Kills the Mummified Cat
USAF XXX-XXXXX X-XX Nevada 1938 / INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION / SUBJ. WFF / OMAR SHAKTI US SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS OPERATIONAL OFFICER (USSAOO): “You’d stopped the crazy ritual. They were finished. Why didn’t you leave Omar Shakti and just get the hell out of Egypt?” FOCK: “For a monkey in a uniform that’s the most pertinent question you’ve asked me all…
45: Unwelcome Guests
The Assault On Omar Shakti’s House Take out Omar Shakti? After all that the investigators have faced and achieved this would appear a comparatively simple task. Simple. Simple? The word rings of treacherous deadly complacency. The rancid heat of a day’s hustle and bustle, as the desperate inhabitants of a sprawling metropolis fight to survive,…
33: Old Bundari’s Lizard
Nairobi, Kenya, Africa: 14:28: PM: Gaidar doesn’t want to go anywhere near Egypt. He has snapped and doesn’t want to deal with the harsh realities of the world. We are preparing to go up country to the Mountain of the Black Wind. We are certain that M’Weru and Miss Hypatia Masters are there. Hypatia Masters…
26: Gray Dragon Island’s Secrets
China, Gray Dragon Island: 05:13 AM: Penhew’s lab. Gaidar and Wes in the room. Wesley ascertains that there is a shell plus explosive device with warhead that he can’t quite work out how it works but it is extraordinarily dangerous. Right now. The rocket is armed and it is collapsing into the magma….! Joe and…
19: Planning & Preparation
London, England: 08:00 AM: Despite all our careful packaging, disguising as machine parts and telescopic equipment the dismantled weaponry is mostly found. Only with a huge bribe are we able to bring it into the USA. The dismantled machines guns and the flamethrower were hard to spot and got through but the Trench Guns, B.A.Rs…
18: Meanwhile, Back in New York City…
London, England 08:00 AM While the others were away in Lesser Edale, Greg, Wes, Natalja and Simon remained at the rented mews house in London studying all the books and scrolls they had found. We determined the following: The Egyptian scroll is spell instructions for Summon Bind Byakhee – it requires a special whistle. The…
17: Our Trip to The English Countryside
Lesser Edale, England: 08:30 AM: I’m not totally sure what this is all about. We know that poor Jackson was intrigued by the article about the beast which was featured in the Scoop (see end of Masks XVI) but let’s face it, the man had cracked up by then so his judgement was seriously impaired….
10: Books From Erica Carlyle
New York City, U.S.A: 12:20 PM: Having returned from Westchester with Roger Carlyle’s 3 books we still wonder if we are puppets being dangled on a string like we were when we wandered pointlessly around Europe on the Orient Express at the whim of a vengeful deceitful Nyarlathotep or whether we are in any kind…