Historical Horror

"Historical" Horror tends toward secret or mythic history though there is a lot of real history horror here too.
==Classic: Egypt==
Egyptian Horror is best known, for good or bad, thanks to mummies.
==Classic: Greece==
The Greek myths in their "original" forms are a treasure trove of horror as many of the modern versions toned things way down.
==Classic: Imperial Rome==
Rome is full of true historical horror; gladiatorial games, mad Emperors, and secretive cults abound and can serve as source material. If that is not enough Roman legends of ghosts, necromancy, and blood magic can be added.
==Classic: Middle Ages 1==
The Medieval Period has plagues and heretical cults (doing who knows what)
==Classic: Arabian Nights==
The novel Vathek (1786) represents the horror aspect of the period.
==Classic: Steampunk==
The Steampunk era is the era of Gothic Horror. It is Frankienstein, Dr. Jeyell/Mr. Hyde, Doctor Moreau, Dracula, and nearly everything Poe wrote. It is also the era of Spring-heeled Jack, Jack the Ripper, and H.H. Holmes. Then there is the hidden horror of perhaps having ate some of your fellow human beings and the horrible working conditions.The Jungle
==Classic: Old West==
The horror here tends toward people are the real monsters though there are more horror focused variants, such as Classic: Deadlands - Weird West.
==Classic: Cliffhangers==
This is the horror of the pulps. This is Lovecraft's stories and the fear that not only do we not really understand the universe but that everything we believed we knew is wrong. This is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or the movie version of Frankenstein.
==GURPS WWII==
"Even the most pulp-loving GM will be hard-pressed to find a clearer struggle between Good and Evil on which to base a campaign. At the same time, the forces of Good have enough dark sides (from Stalin to Hiroshima) for the most psychologically subtle explorations of human – or inhuman – evil."
==Classic: Atomic Horror==
The horror of the 1950s-1960s could be both Earth bound...and from out there. Examples include both the serial and movie versions of Quatermass and the Pit as well as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Them! (1954)
==GURPS Zombies==
While the first Zombie film can be regarded as White Zombie (1932) the concept didn't really hit its stride until Night of the Living Dead (1968). The real life inspiration for this popular monster was outlined in The Serpent and the Rainbow
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