Arkham Unveiled

Arkham Unveiled, subtitled Adventures and Background in the Home of Miskatonic University, is a supplement book by Chaosium for their Call of Cthulhu RPG. It provides extensive details on Arkham, Lovecraft's most famous fictional Massachusetts town, and 4 scenarios for keepers.
The book was revamped and re-released as The Compact Arkham Unveiled in 1995; this new edition did not include the scenarios, and changes were made to the maps included The Compact Arkham Unveiled at RPG.net.
==Overview==
Arkham Unveiled introduces the town Arkham on October 1928, as seen from a Call of Cthulhu RPG point of view. Most information was drawn from materials written by Lovecraft, with additional entries came other authors: August Derleth, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, and Clark Ashton Smith. Original materials are also included to "fill in the blanks". Buildings, people, business, relationships, history, grimoires, even the weather are described in detailed in the supplement.
A chronology deriving only from Lovecraft's stories is included for reference. Also included is a map of the center of Arkham, with a note that it differs considerably from Lovecraft's notes and drawing in Marginalia.
4 scenarios are included in the supplement:
* "A Little Knowledge": derived from "Herbert West--Reanimator", this scenario features a Miskatonic University student trying to recreate the work of Herbert West, and how the other students could stop him.
*"The Hills Rise Wild": the investigators attempt to find the site where a bolide, a meteorite of significant size, is presumed to have landed. Their area of search is the back-country northwest of Dunwich, Massachusetts, where they encounter a dangerous family and their god.
*"The Condemned": the investigators face off against an 18th century sorcerer, who intends to murder the 7 descendants of the 7 men who sealed him in 1752.
*"Dead of Night": a human skeleton discovered in a partially demolished mansion sets off a re-discovery of the truth of a crime long forgotten, which may or may not be related to a mysterious man trying to recover jewelry from the police's custody.
==References==
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