From: ov@saturn.cs.swin.oz.au (Owen Veenstra)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Anthologies...
Date: 6 Sep 92 23:25:47 GMT
Organization: Swinburne Institute of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria

In article <dlaird.1c3e@terapin.com>, dlaird@terapin.com (Delbert Laird) writes:
|> Can anyone recommend any anthologies of horror worth purchasing...I've taken a
|> look at "The Best Fantasy & Horror of 1991" and thought that there MUST be
|> something better.
|> 
|> An aside- Lately I've been pursuing game design (currently Sci-Fi Japan) and
|> have been concurrently working on a horror RPG entited, "Night Runners". At
|> one time, I really found this to be enjoyable....but now I'm suffering designer
|> Brain Cramp..(Egads, my brain is bleeding).
|> 
|> Would any of you be willing to share some ideas with a misguided soul? :-)
|> 
|> 
|> dlaird@terapin.com
|> ****************************************************************************** 
|> "The blasphemous beast rose from the putrid ichorous bile to display its
|>  cadaverous body and writhe as it lunged forward to grasp a man with its
|>  decomposing skeletal talons.........Now he's running for a second term."
|> 
|> ******************************************************************************

   Delbert,

      There is alot of horror anthology material out there; if you would like
   more informaiton then I suggest you be more specific.  Are you interested in
   modern macabre horror, pulp horror, gore, (older) macabre horror ??

     I'll take a guess and hope that the following helps you.  Grafton 
   publishing has alot of stuff on the pulp horror anthologies, most of it
   similiar (in ways) to the writings of HP Lovecraft (and some of it superior,
   too).  A couple of authors they consistantly use include Copper, Smith,
   Lumley etc.

      If you can find it, there was a great little publication called "Twisters"
   pulished many years ago, full of great modern macabre shorts, and all by
   reasonable nameless authors.  However, the stories selected were all of 
   an excellent quality, and all were very readable.

     Necronomicon Press have a lot of stuff that comes out (infrequently??),
   again in the HLP vein.  

      If you look in particular shops (comix shops are always a good place
   Down Under), there are typically shelves full of horror stuff, including
   a large minority of anthology horror.

      As reguarding you horror RPG, again you must qualify your question.
   If you want die-rolling RPG, then checkout the RoleMaster RPG (Iron Crown
   Enterprises (ICE)).  It's combat system has to be seen to believed!  
   (It was so complex and the combat itself so lengthy that they frequently
   publish algorithms for short-cuts).  If you want a more personality based 
   game, check out James Bond, or Call of Cthulhu.  Both offer a minimum of 
   die-rolling, focusing on player interaction.  For COC do not invest in
   their publication Cthulhu Now; it is a bad attempt at horror moderization,
   and for the most offers the player a variety of assult rifles etc.  (However,
   the smart GameMaster knows how to get around this... )


   NOTE : The following was intended to be personally sent to Delbert; however
          upon reviewing the artical, I felt that other people may be interested
          in the comments I suggest (especially the RPG), and for that reason
          I post it to alt.horror.

                                          Owen.
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