In this episode, Seth and Jon welcome historian and game designer, Shannon Appelcline, to the show.

Designers & Dragons: Origins -- https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/0477a26f-723e-4d2f-8f11-74cdc007daf1/landing

Shannon's Blog -- designersanddragons.com

Modern Mythos Patreon -- https://www.patreon.com/modern_mythos

We can't do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome!

We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He's a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account.

https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow

http://www.johnsumrow.com

https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow

And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft's writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site.

https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/

http://thickets.net/

@darkestthickets.bsky.social

Jon Hook as The Keeper of Arcane Lore

David as Zadok Felton (a Physicist)

Dru as Acadian Broussard (a Pharmicist)

Erin as Libby Howizer (an Art Dealer)

Troy as Augustas "Gus" Jones (a Handyman)

Vanessa as Violette Holzmann (a Botanist)

Willie as Tomas Leche Dvaca (a Student)

Jon Hook as The Keeper of Arcane Lore

David as Zadok Felton (a Physicist)

Dru as Acadian Broussard (a Pharmicist)

Erin as Libby Howizer (an Art Dealer)

Troy as Augustas "Gus" Jones (a Handyman)

Vanessa as Violette Holzmann (a Botanist)

Willie as Tomas Leche Dvaca (a Student)

This month, Seth and Jon gush about the amazing series on Hulu/FX... ALIEN: Earth.

-- WARNING -- There are SPOILERS!!!

In addition to ALIEN: Earth, Jon talks about the new Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes, published by Magnetic Press Play.

ALIEN: Earth

• Created for television, and written by, Noah Hawley

• Staring:

  • Sydney Chandler (Wendy)

  • Essie Davis (Dame Sylvia)

  • Samuel Blenkin (Boy Kavalier)

  • Babou Ceesay (Morrow)

  • Alex Lawther (Joe Hermit)

  • Adarsh Gourav (Slightly)

  • Timothy Olyphant (Kirsh)

• The series is set two years before the classic 1979 movie, ALIEN, by Ridley Scott

• Five corporations govern the Earth:

  • Weyland-Yutani (Americas)

  • Prodigy (Oceania, Asia, and South Africa)

  • Lynch (Russia)

  • Dynamic (North Africa, Middle East, and the Moon)

  • Threshold (Europe)

• Creatures collected by the crew of the Maginot:

  • Xenomorphs

  • Ticks

  • Octo-Eye

  • Flies

  • Plant Pod (ie: Orchid)

• Xenopedia: https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes

• Published by Magnetic Press Play: https://www.magnetic-press.com/about-magnetic-press-play/

• Game Engine: Modified version of the West End Games D6

  • D6MV: D6 Magnetic Variant

• Players may play as:

  • Chimpanzees

  • Orangutans

  • Gorillas

  • Tribal Humans

  • Time-Lost Astro-nauts

  • Mutated Humans

• The setting is ideally suited for:

  • World exploration, like you might experience with Dungeons & Dragons

  • Investigations, like you might experience with Call of Cthulhu or Blade Runner

  • Horror, like you might experience with Call of Cthulhu

We can't do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome!

We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He's a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account.

https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow

http://www.johnsumrow.com

https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow

And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft's writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site.

https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/

http://thickets.net/

@darkestthickets.bsky.social

Jon Hook as The Keeper of Arcane Lore

David as Zadok Felton (a Physicist)

Dru as Acadian Broussard (a Pharmicist)

Erin as Libby Howizer (an Art Dealer)

Troy as Augustas "Gus" Jones (a Handyman)

Vanessa as Violette Holzmann (a Botanist)

Willie as Tomas Leche Dvaca (a Student)

Join Seth and Jon as they welcome Jeffrey Moeller to the show, author of such works as "Ladybug Ladybug Fly Away Home," and the upcoming "Seasons Change."

Jon and Seth also talk about the horror they've been consuming over the summer, be it on TV, movies, or reading.

Jon Hook as The Keeper of Arcane Lore

David as Zadok Felton (a Physicist)

Dru as Acadian Broussard (a Pharmicist)

Erin as Libby Howizer (an Art Dealer)

Troy as Augustas "Gus" Jones (a Handyman)

Vanessa as Violette Holzmann (a Botanist)

Willie as Tomas Leche Dvaca (a Student)

Jon Hook as The Keeper of Arcane Lore

David as Zadok Felton (a Physicist)

Dru as Acadian Broussard (a Pharmicist)

Erin as Libby Howizer (an Art Dealer)

Troy as Augustas "Gus" Jones (a Handyman)

Vanessa as Violette Holzmann (a Botanist)

Willie as Tomas Leche Dvaca (a Student)

Welcome to a new season of the Summer Book Club!

In this episode, hosts Jon Hook and James Droucker talk about the selection of stories in "Into the Cthulhu-Universe," edited by Steven Paulsen and Christopher Sequeira.

Table of Contents:

• The Chaos Lords of Mars, by Jonathan Maberry

• Twas Brilling, by Cat Rambo

• Sweet Music, by Jason Nahrung

• Simbiyu and the Nameless, by Eugene Bacon

• The Meatamorphosis, by Aaron Sterns

• Innsmouth Park, by Jane Routley

• The Queen's Solution, by Peter Rawlik & Sal Ciano

• Dread Island, by Joe R. Lansdale

• Fhtagntastic Four, by Christopher Sequeria & Jan Scherpenhuizen

• The Sleepwalker's Manifesto, by Kat Clay

• Creatures of the Night Train, by Del Howison

• A Perfect Summer for Baseball, Tentacles, Mutants, and Love, by Barry N. Malzberg & Jack Dann

• Three Bad Actors In A Silvery Room, by Steve Proposch

• Fame Bites, by Anna Tambour

• Leftovers, by Jim Krueger

• The Power of F'thagn, by Scott Driscoll

• Hill-Runner and the Enemy From Behind the Curtain of Stars, by Gerry Huntman

• The Colour Out of Hautdesert, by JM Merryt

• The Sign of Daoloth, by Ramsey Campbell

Seth and Jon are in the balcony to talk about movies made within the last ten years that are considered Lovecraftian, or Lovecraftian adjacent.

But first, thank you to Graeme Patrick for sponsoring this episode! Check out his amazing scenario, Of Sorrow & Clay, available on the Miskatonic Repository on DriveThruRPG.

• Of Sorrow & Clay is an 1880s scenario set deep in the Appalachian Mountains

• Has a fantastic cast of extremely memorable mountain-folk NPCs for the PCs to encounter and 5 pre-gen investigators perfect for this remorse mountain setting

• Some really cool (and new) creatures for the investigators to encounter

• New spells and new magical items, and a couple of really nice handouts

• Just 23 pages + Pregens

• Alex Guillote handled art and design

• Available Roll20 VTT pack for ease of play online

  Of Sorrow & Clay: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/396056/of-sorrow-and-clay?affiliate_id=51821

  Of Sorrow & Clay - Roll20 VTT pack: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/457142/of-sorrow-and-clay-roll20-vtt?affiliate_id=51821

The Ritual (2017)

• Studio: eOne / Netflix

• Director: David Bruckner

• Staring: Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, & Sam Troughton

• Based on the book, The Ritual, by Adam Nevill

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ritual_(2017_film)

Older Gods (2023)

• Studio: Wagyu Films

• Director/Writer: David A. Roberts

• Staring: Lindsay Bennett-Thompson, Ieuan Coombs, & Jonathan Keeble

• Making of Podcast: From Dream to Silver Screen (conversations about making this movie)

• https://oldergodsmovie.com/

The Void (2016)

• Studio: D Films / Cave Painting Pictures

• Directors/Writers: Steven Kostanski & Jeremy Gillespie

• Staring: Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Daniel Fathers, Kathleen Munroe, Ellen Wong, Evan Stern, Trish Rainone, & Mik Byskov

• Creature special effects crowdfunded on Indiegogo for $82,510 (the rest of the picture was funded traditionally)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Void_(2016_film)

Underwater (2020)

• Studio: 20th Century Fox

• Director: William Eubank

• Starring: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr, Mamoudou Athie, & T. J. Miller

• Last movie released under the "20th Century Fox" brand, before being rebranded as "20th Century Studios", and it was a box office bomb

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_(film)

The Lighthouse (2019)

• Studio: A24 / VVS Films

• Director: Robert Eggers / Writers: Robert Eggers & Max Eggers

• Starring: Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe

• Max Eggers had the original idea for this movie as a re-envisioning of the unfinished Edgar Allan Poe short story with the same title.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_film)

We can't do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome!

We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He's a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes.

https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow

http://www.johnsumrow.com

https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow

And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft's writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes.

https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/

http://thickets.net/

@darkestthickets.bsky.social

And once again, a huge thank you to our sponsor Graeme Patrick. Thanks for listening.