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Trail of Cthulhu: The Book of the Smoke

The Book of the Smoke: The Occult Guide to London

This is a primer for players of Lovecraftian roleplaying games set in the dismal streets of 1930s London... and it won the 2012 ENnie Award for Best Writing!

Publisher's blurb: "The Guide is replete with contacts, rumours and clues which will guide you on your quest for forbidden knowledge. Written as the companion volume to Bookhounds of London for Trail of Cthulhu, it can be used as a Keeper's resource as well as an in-game artefact for players in any Mythos game.

"In 1933 a mysterious secret society commissioned Augustus Darcy to compile a guide to occult London. By the end of that year, Darcy was dead. Within these tales of The Smoke's legendary past are scattered clues to its future. Was a magical war brewing? Were forces from other dimensions breaking through into our own? Who were the mysterious Brotherhood? Who killed Augustus Darcy and why? After eighty years Darcy's book is here for you to make up your own mind. Use it as a guide as you venture into Darcy's world and may your gods be with you in the days ahead.

"It is a work of fiction, an autobiography, an occult miscellany and a murder mystery, a book which should not be read, and yet cannot be cast aside. It is all these things and more, but most of all it is a guide for your own journey through the streets of the Big Smoke."

Megan's review

Book Details:
Author: Paula Dempsey
Publishers' Reference: PELGT20
ISBN: 978-0-95475-264-4
Paperback, 146 pages
Date: July 2011

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Product page last updated: 9 February 2017