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Kickstarter Fundraiser for "Bumps in the Night"

Greetings Agents and Cultists,

Pagan Publishing has just launched a fundraiser at Kickstarter.com to raise the rest of our printing and shipping budget for our new collection of Call of Cthulhu scenarios entitled Bumps in the Night.

Bumps in the Night was written by John H. Crowe III and is set in the classic Call of Cthulhu era in the early part of the 20th Century. All five scenarios use the Call of Cthulhu Basic Role Playing mechanics, but none of them are based on the Cthulhu Mythos. Instead the players will have to face obscure horrors from the world of myth and folklore. At 120 pages, Bumps in the Night is beautifully illustrated by Rick Sardinha, Heather Hudson, Samuel Araya and Rhonda Libby. It will be produced as a 8.5" x 11" softcover, with glossy color exteriors and grisly grayscale interior artwork.

All writing, editing, proof-reading, illustration and layout are complete. All we need now is our print budget. We've raised some money through customer pre-sales but still need to raise another $2,500 dollars to cover the rest of the printing and shipping to our warehouse. If we meet our pledge goals, we can have a full print run ready to ship to customers in nine weeks (which includes the time we have to wait for Amazon Payments to release the pledged funds).

Check out our Kickstarter page to learn all about the rewards available to those who help make Bumps in the Night a reality.

For those folks who pre-ordered Bumps in the Night at GenCon or from Arkham Bazaar, if you also want to contribute to the Kickstarter fundraiser, we'll add the money you've already spent to your new pledge for purposes of calculating rewards. There's no reason you should get less just because you supported this project earlier than anyone else.

Click anywhere it says Kickstarter or Bumps in the Night to go to our project page at Kickstarter.com and donate to the cause.

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.

Product Database now online

Greeting Agents and Cultists,

As we continue to improve our website, I'd like to direct you all to our product database. You can get there form anywhere on the site by clicking the button on the left marked PRODUCTS. It's searchable and contains everything Pagan Publishing ever created over the last two decades. We're in the process of including links to eBay searches to assist you in tracking down that out-of-print product you've been dreaming about.

Please let us know if there is any way we can improve the database's performance to give you the information you want to see. 

Please note that our T-Shirts are available through Cafe Press and links are provided through our Product database.

Also! The script for THE KING IN YELLOW (as imagined by Thom Rhyng) has been available for some time through Lulu.com. Of course we've been pretty craptacular about directing folks where to buy it, but that ends today. We will be taking some steps to get Delta Green: Alien Intelligence and A Guide to the Cthulhu Cult back in print through Lulu.com this year.So look for those two titles soon.

Be Seeing You,

A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing

Pagan Publishing Website Back Online

Welcome back Agents and Cultists,

If you are reading this, it should come as no surprise that Pagan Publishing's website is back online. There are a couple of big changes... obviously we've changed the look and feel of the site quite a bit, but that's just the start. All the design, shopping for service providers, and heavy lifting that went into this site relaunch was done by my ever-lovely partner in crime, the completely feral Jane Brooks.

Thank you, Jane.

Now, on to the site!

News and Previews: This will be Pagan's main outlet for news about our company and our products. Of course we will still cross-post to other websites like Yog-sothoth.com, but you'll get the news here first. Check back here for updates on the progress of everything we're working on. We hope that if we tell folks what left to get done on a project, maybe folks will step up and offer to help. For more on working with Pagan Publishing, please check out Join Us!

Products: We are also in the process of reorganizing our product list into a searchable data base that will give you information about all of Pagan Publishing's products, both in and out of print. Every product will include price, author and artist info, the date of publication, ISBN, and page count (where applicable). There will also be links to Arkham Bazaar, where you can buy products still in print, and to Ebay and other online merchants for products that are out of print. This will help get our customers connected with our products like never before. That should be ready by February.

Buy Our Products: We are no longer using the site to sell directly to customers. While there are plenty of places where you can buy our products online, our official outlet is Arkham Bazaar. We will be adding more retailer information so that you can track down our products at a brick and mortar store in your area.

Join Us!: This is one of the most important pages on our site. Pagan Publishing got its start through the cooperative efforts of talented amateurs. We believe that the best ideas for Call of Cthulhu still come from thousands of table tops across the world. On this page you will find our submission guidelines, our submission form, our rights and payment terms and, most importantly, a list of what we're looking for to complete our latest projects. We'll be cross-referencing this material with our site news to steer ambitious writers, artists and layout designers to the products that will most inspire them.

In the next week we will be adding links to our favorite Lovecraftian and Call of Cthulhu coconspirators.

Sell Our Products: For our retailers we have added a list of our distributors as well as downloadable advertising and promotional materials. But anyone can download them, not just retailers. 

Please note that we are also rebuilding our mailing list from scratch. If you want to get notices of upcoming products and offers only available through the mailing list, there is a sign up at the bottom of every page. 

2008 was a big year for Pagan with three new books in game stores around the world. We plan to top that with four books for 2009. Check back here so you don't get caught by surprise when the stars are right!

Be Seeing You,

A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing

Buy Online from Arkham Bazaar!

THE OUTSIDER PARTNERS WITH ARKHAM BAZAAR!

The Outsider Catalog is going through some changes this Spring. We are going to be partnering with Arkham Bazaar to do all of Pagan Publishing's retail sales. Arkham Baazar already carries many of our products, and we were carrying many of theirs, particularly their DVDs, so it just seemed like a natural move to combine our stores into one centralized outlet.