Classic: Screampunk

GURPS Classic: Screampunk (2001) is where Gothic Horror meets Steampunk.
==Gothic Campaigns==
* Themes - The Sins of the Father, Melodrama, Natural Taboo, Fatal Omens, Crimes Against Reason, Religious Themes, Corruption of the Innocent, The Taint of Social Disorder, Powerlessness and Imprisonment.
* Locations in Gothic Novels - Crumbling Ruins, Gothic Architecture, Wilderness, Dreamscape, Hidden Rooms,Subterranean Locals, Graveyards, Catacombs, and Crypts, Lunatic Asylums. 
==In Steam We Trust==
* Steampunk as a Source of Taint
* Against the Natural Horror - Crushed by the Wheels of Industry, Side Effects and Failed Experiments
* Forbidden Knowledge - O Lucifer, Please Let Me Go Beyond God's Law...; Misguided Voyagers of Discovery.
* Price of Power - Hubris and Idolatry
* The Mob's Rise against Technology - Luddites, Chartists
* Scientific Societies - The Society for Psychical Research, The Royal Society
==Characters==
* Villains and Antiheroes
* Heroes and Heroines
* Character Types: The Anarchist. The Defrocked Priest, The Sinister Servant, The Eccentric Aristocrat, The Failed Scientist, The Family Lawyer, The Cruel Guardian, The Ingenue, The Debauched Seductress, The Mob Leader, The Opiun Fiend, The Swarthy Foreigner, The Vengeful Creation
==Atmosphere and Plotting==
* Hooking the Characters - Letters from Old Friends, Strange Dreams, Professional Circumstances
* Uncanny Coincidences - Nature Reacts in an Unnatural Way, Astonishing Similarities, The Lady Vanishes, Unexplained Changes
* Permission to be Terrified - Welcome to Normalcy, Here is Your Parasol, Dreams, Madness, and Drug Induced Ramblings, Making Examples of NPCs
* Toward a Climatic Confrontation!
** Pacing
** Example Scenario Layouts - From the Merely Uncanny to the Horrific Truth, Bait and Switch, Beginning With a Dark Revelation
==Bibliography==
* Early Gothic (1750-1820)
* Victorian Gothic (1821-1914)
* Modern Gothic
==Note==
As the BBC series Nightmare: The Birth of Victorian Horror points out the horror of the Great War "made the Victorian Horror stories, or perhaps fantasies is a better word, seem not only tame but curiously reassuring like your favorite box of chocolates."
==Related works==
* GURPS Horror
* Classic: Steampunk
* Classic: Steamtech
==Additional Information==
*Designer's Notes: GURPS Screampunk (7/27/2001)
Category:2001
Category:Fictional Settings
Category:Classic