Tynes Cowan Corporation News and Previews

Pagan Publishing Attending not one, but TWO! (count 'em) two Lovecraftian film festivals!

I can't imagine that I have to remind any of you agents and cultists out there that the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival continues to thrill and astound views both in its Northern and Southern incarnations. This weekend I shall be attending the Portland H.P. Lovecraft film festival at the magnificent Hollywood Theatre.There I will be taking in all the new short films as well as a German feature film based on "The Colour Out of Space" and the latest creation of those madmen from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society: a feature length version of "The Whisperer in Darkness" done in the style of a 1930s Universal monster movie!

Next weekend, however, there is a second film festival of similar bent up in my home town of Seattle. Lovecraft's Visions is a new film festival that will debuting at the Seattle Art Museum the weekend of October 7th, 8th and 9th. This will give folks in the Pacific Northwest a chance to see The Whisperer in Darkness again as well as a far rarer gem: the never before seen director's cut of The Resurrected! Dan O'Bannon did a pretty good job bringing "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" to the screen, but it wasn't the movie he wanted to make. For the first time an audience will get to see Dan O'Bannon's vision without the clutter and cuts forced on him by producers and the studio.

Come on out and see it folks. Who knows when it will ever see the light of day again?

 

Actual Play recording of "The Night Mission" from GenCon 2011 now up at RPPR

This past GenCon I played quite a bit of Call of Cthulhu. Some of it even got recorded. The first one has now been released online. It is a playtest of a scenario for our World War One project, Horrors of War, called "The Night Mission."

The players include Ross Payton, from Role-Playing Public Radio, who brought along his friend Caleb (whose last name escapes me), Kieth Potter (a regular contributor to the Delta Green Mailing List) his friend Ross (who we simply called Ross II: Electric Bugaloo), Greg Stolze and Shane Ivey. Flying WWI biplane bombers over the Italian Alps... at night... in a Call of Cthulhu game... What could go wrong?

You can hear it all by clicking HERE!

More actual plays are on the way.

The Unspeakable Oath Podcast interviews the team behind Delta Green

Shane Ivey and the folks at Arc Dream have done a great job bringing The Unspeakable Oath back from the dead. Now they've upped the ante with the creation of a Call of Cthulhu podcast called Unspeakable! For their first three episodes they included interviews with John Tynes, Dennis Detwiller and myself (Adam Scott Glancy). Check them out. The interviews are chocked full of product info, war stories, nonsense and segueways.

Bumps in the Night ready for Pre-Ordering

“From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!”

– traditional Scottish prayer

Go ahead…

Say your prayers
Light your lamp
Load your revolver

It won’t do any good.

Pagan Publishing is proud to present Bumps in the Night: five non-Mythos scenarios of supernatural horror and mystery from author John H. Crowe III. Inside this musty tome you won’t find deep ones, or shoggoths, or Great Old Ones, but you will find loathsome horrors perpetrated by both the living and the dead. Ghosts, demons, poltergeists, spirits and the undead are the order of the day.

What horror is devouring the locals in “The Westerfield Incident?”

What has caused the graves to open in “The Vengeful Dead?”

Can the Investigators save themselves from “The Bitter Venom of the Gods?”

Will they unravel the “Curse of the Screaming Skull?”

Can they bring peace to “An Unsettled Mind?”

It won’t help your Investigators if they’ve read the Malleus Monstrorum or own their own copy of the core Call of Cthulhu rulebook. There’s nothing in those well-thumbed volumes to help them here. In here, they’re on their own.

Bumps in the Night is written, edited, play-tested, illustrated, laid out and proofed. All we need now is our print budget, so we are turning to you, our fans, to help us bring this project to the public. We are asking those who pre-order to pay $25.00, (the full SRP is $24.95). In exchange pre-orders will be shipped out before orders to distributors are.

Also, all domestic pre-ordered books will be shipped out to customers for free. International pre-orders will come with a $5 discount on shipping costs.

Pre-orders can also get Bumps in the Night signed by author John H. Crowe III for a total price of $30.00.

We will take pre-orders until the end of September, then we’ll work on raising the rest of the publishing budget via other means.

Of course, if the book is not funded sufficiently to go to press by 12/31/11 we will refund your credit card for pre-orders or donations in full.

The ball's in your court Pagan Fans! Let’s make this happen.

To place a pre-order please follow this link to Arkham Bazaar, who handle all of Pagan Publishing's mail order business these days.

Looking for Old Unspeakable Oath Subscribers

Thanks to the efforts of the good folks over at Arc Dream Publishing, The Unspeakable Oath has returned from the grave and is now available for sale. If you haven't seen the new website, check it out here!

One thing both Pagan and Arc Dream agreed about when we worked out an arrangement for bringing The Unspeakable Oath back was that the old subscribers needed to be taken care of... even though it had been nearly a decade since a subscription was purchased.

To that end we have combed our records and found 90 unfilled subscriptions. The hard part isn't getting these old subscribers their books, its finding where our old subscribers have scurried off to since that last address we had. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to post the names of all the subscribers with outstanding subscriptions here, on the TUO website, and on other forums like Yog-Sothoth.com and the Delta-Green Mailing List. If you see your name, please get in touch with Arc Dream publishing through their website and they will attempt to confirm that you are who you say you are... mostly based on confirming what your old address was when you had a subscription. They'll get a PDF AND a hard copy out to you. Don't get in touch with Pagan Publishing. We don't have any copies to send to you. That's Arc Dream's balliwick.

Here are the list of Subscribers and the last issue they have a subscription for:

Through Issue #18:

Steve Bull

Michael Cisco

Eric Dowe

Ron Dunnett

Yossi Gurvitz

G.S. Kirkham

Robert MacLaughlin

Bruce A. Paulson 

Matthew Reinke

Clark V. Wallace

 

Through Issue #19:

Dale Batson

Andrew Bird

Brian Judas Bradley

Fredrick H. Brown

Sean Carney

Matt Cowger

James Crisp

Alex Driver

Jay W. Dugger

Douglas B. Dunaway

Tracy Scott Emrich

Cameron Fairchild

Adam E. Gauntlett

Leon C. Glover

Richard Keenan Greenalch, Jr.

Martin Herles

Kevin Hester

Dermot Hill

Nathaniel Hoffman

Robert Hradek

Douglas Ianelli

Mark Jahnke

Robert Jase

Sean Jensen

David Jerabek

Frank J. Kaeberlein

Daniel R. Lackey

Thomas R. Lane

Stephano, Lanticina

Dr. Casmir Liber

Perry Lin

Donnovan K. Loucks

James Lowder

James Majka

John C. Maniha

Greg Marks

William McCarthy

Herbert McCowan

Jeff McSpadden

B.T. McTeer

Mike McVeigh

David W. Miller

David Millians

Russel Mirabelli

Allen Mixson

Thomas Moffatt

Harry Morris

Morten K. Pettersen

Graeme Price

Eric Priehs

Philip C. Robinson

Gregory Allan Rutherford

Mark A. Santillo

Adam Schroeder

James Sessums

Scott Shafer

A. K. Shipman

Claude Sigmund

Paul Sissenstein

Lena L. Sorensen

Walk Spafford 

Daniel Speir

Martin C. Stack

John R. Stansfield II

Scott Stoyanozich

Daniel V. Thibault

Paul Villanueva

Jason Vines

Mark Vorwerk 

Patrick Wetmore

Charles Wilkins

Mark Williamson

Fabio Zanicotti

 

Through Issue #20:

Patrick A. Buehler

Jacques De Sorgher

Chick Lewis

Beth Savage

 

Through Issue #21:

Andreas Melhorn

 

Through Issue #22:

Leroy Castle

 

Through Issue #23:

Stephen Page

More Con News, Bumps in the Night, Reprints & PDFs

As events rocket past once again I have fallen behind keeping the general public up to date on the comings and goings at Pagan Publishing.

First: Con News

Pagan Publishing will be attending Gamestorm in Vancouver WA, just across the river from Portland. The con is held at the Vancouver WA Hilton Hotel from March 24th to March 27th. Hope to see you there. I plan to run some Delta Green scenarios and some stuff from our upcoming Horrors of War collection.

Second: Bumps in the Night

Bumps in the Night creeps forward. The second edit/proofread of the interior is being done and it'll soon be time to start soliciting printers for bids. When the book is ready to go to the printer we will start soliciting you, the loyal Pagan customers, for pre-sales to support the cost of printing. We plan to offer PDFs along with the pre-orders.

Reprints & PDFs

We're still looking to do reprints of out of print Pagan products and still plan to take the first step into that arena via pdfs through DriveThruRPG. Delta Green is re-laid out right now. Delta Green: Countdown is next and then The Golden Dawn and other rpg titles will follow. Delta Green: Alien Intelligence and Delta Green: Dark Theatres will be next on the agenda. We're working with Arc Dream to bring other Delta Green titles to pdf publishing.

Pagan Publishing to Attend PAX 2010

Just a quick note to let folks know that A. Scott Glancy, that's me, will be at PAX (the Penny Arcade Expo) 2010 here is Seattle on September 3rd, 4th and 5th. I'm helping to support my favorite brick and mortar game and comic store (The Dreaming) by demoing a few games and hopefully driving sales in the direction of their two booths. One booth will be on the exhibition floor, number 1440. The other booth will be in the Table Top Area right in front of where I'll be demoing Arkham Horror and Call of Cthulhu.

I'll be running Arkham Horror on Saturday (4th) and Sunday (5th) from 10am to 12 noon.

I'll be running Call of Cthulhu on Friday (3rd) from 1pm to 5pm and on Saturday (4th) from 3pm to 6pm.

Be Seeing You...

Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity and Bumps in the Night

Again, it's probably old news for those of you hooked into the Delta Green mailing list or Yog-Sothoth.com, but Arc Dream Publishing will be getting their hard-cover limited edition of Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity back from the printer this month. They have less than 200 books left to sell, and since they're going to be taking them to GenCon Indy (and sharing booth space with Pagan, Dagon Industries and Cubicle 7) there's not much chance of there being any hardcovers left to buy after August 8th.

As for the soft-cover mass-market version... Pagan will be getting that out in six months, as per our agreement with Arc Dream. Look for it around the Valentine's Day Massacre.

As for Bumps in the Night, we're almost done with final editing and layout. We'll have some proofs at GenCon Indy that folks can look at and place pre-orders with us. Folks who pre-order will also get a PDF of the book before it goes to the printer. We'll have options available for on-line pre-ordering up on our site just after GenCon Indy.

Next blog... well, I don't actually have one yet. Maybe after GenCon we'll have some more actual play recordings of Call of Cthulhu games for you to listen to?

RPPR Interviews A. Scott Glancy

Ross Payton from the Role-Playing Public Radio podcast threw away two hours of his life interviewing me. And now you can too! The interview was supposed to be about upcoming products and projects but often devolves into profanity laced war stories from old Call of Cthulhu games.

For the masochists out there, you can listen to the interview here!

Next post... Actual game books!

The Unspeakable Oath Returns from the Dead

I'm sure this is old news to most everyone since announcements have been made through the Delta Green mailing List and Yog-Sothoth.com, but I might as well blog about it here too.

The Unspeakable Oath is back on track to release a new issue. Shane Ivey of Arc Dream publishing has taken on this task and gotten a new editorial board organized. He even got a new website up for the publication at www.theunspeakableoath.com. The hoary old Call of Cthulhu game journal is shambling forth yet again and looking for submissions from writers and artists.

In the past Pagan has been approached by some gaming start ups that were looking to resurrect the Oath as a way to get their foot in the door of the Call of Cthulhu publishing market. Very few got anywhere, which is why Pagan never made any big announcements in the past concerning getting the Oath back up and running. This time however, based on past experience with Arc Dream publishing in getting our Delta Green books produced, I have full confidence in their endeavor.

So if you've got some Lovecraftian art you're pleased with or some Call of Cthulhu article or scenario you've banged out, now would be the time to send it in to The Unspeakable Oath. Check out their new Submissions page. It's best to send submissions to the new site directly, but if you send something to Pagan I'll endeavor to forward your submissions. But don't count on me! Do it yourself.

Next Post... Me! Running my mouth!