The Cthulhu Alphabet

A project in San Jose, CA by Goodman Games
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A book of Lovecraftian inspiration for your RPG sessions. A is for Altar, B is for Books, C is for Cultist, N is for Nyarlathotep!
Backers: 963
Average Pledge Per Backer: $32

Funded: $31,182 of $15,000
Dates: Apr 26th -> May 22nd (27 days)
Project By: Goodman Games
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Latest News

Last day before the Great Sacrifice

May 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Oh cultists, we thank you for your sacrifices! More than 900 of you have pledged coin and blood to bring The Cthulhu Alphabet to our dimension. This book has always existed outside space and time. Yet now you can hear the footsteps approaching from... (Read More)

Two days left!

May 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everybody! Last couple days for The Cthulhu Alphabet. Greetings to all the new backers - glad to see the backer count clicking into the 800's. Here are a few fun page spreads from the book, to show you what you'll be getting. As we mentioned, lots... (Read More)

Tell us YOUR favorite Mythos story! ...and, stretch goal cleared!

May 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello everyone! We hope you're waking up this good news: The Cthulhu Alphabet will now have printed endsheets! We're happy to have cleared this stretch goal. And those endsheets will have some awesome art. Maybe even this... ...or perhaps this...... (Read More)

The Repairer of Reputations

May 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings! We're entering the home stretch on this Kickstarter. We've brought you author perspectives on many favorite Mythos stories. Here is the last of those essays, where Michael Curtis takes us back to pre-Lovecraft fiction. Time to read Robert... (Read More)

The Black Stone

May 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone, continuing our essays by the authors of The Cthulhu Alphabet, here is Mike Ferguson on The Black Stone. This is a Cthulhu mythos story not by Lovecraft, but by Robert E. Howard. The story is worth a read, as Mike will tell you... The... (Read More)

Happy Mother's Day from The Cthulhu Alphabet

May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
You treat your mom better than this, don't you? We hope so!  The Cthulhu Alphabet will give you plenty of other horrific (and horrible) ideas for your Mythos adventures once you have it in your hands! (This particular image is by Stefan Poag and... (Read More)

The Outsider

May 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone! Next up in our "love letters to Lovecraft" - here is Jon Hook on why he likes the story The Outsider. The Outsider By Jon Hook The Outsider was the first story written by H. P. Lovecraft that I ever read. My first introduction to the... (Read More)

Pickman’s Model

May 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone, continuing in our series of essays about favorite Mythos stories, here is a story from artist and writer Brad McDevitt. First we have the essay, and then we have Brad’s entertaining story of the first time he read this – a hilarious... (Read More)

Endsheet art and more

May 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello, backers! I just finished re-reading The Dweller In Darkness. What Lovecraftian (or Derleth-ian) horrors have you been reading lately? After we've finished posting the essays by the contributors to The Cthulhu Alphabet, we still plan to ask you... (Read More)

The White Ship

May 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone! Continuing our essays on favorite Lovecraft works, here is Brendan LaSalle with his unlikely contender... My Favorite Lovecraft: The White Ship By Brendan LaSalle Did you know Lovecraft wrote a fairy tale? The White Ship is a cautionary... (Read More)

Now that's a good-looking sacrifice

May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Russ Nicholson just sent in this image for The Cthulhu Alphabet. Wow. Need we say more? This is what a Lovecraftian sacrifice should look like...  (Read More)

The Whisperer In Darkness

May 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
As part of this Kickstarter, we are bringing you short essays by The Cthulhu Alphabet authors highlighting their favorite Lovecraft stories. Here is the next installment... Thoughts on The Whisperer In Darkness By Michael Curtis Picking a favorite... (Read More)

A is for Awesome Art

May 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Cthulhu fhtagn, backers! We have an overabundance of great art lined up for The Cthulhu Alphabet. Today we're going to show you a few pieces.  Oh, and start thinking about your favorite Cthulhu Mythos story. We'll have more essays from the authors... (Read More)

Funded! And... The Colour Out of Space

April 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everybody! Thanks to your support we are now FUNDED! Let the Lovecraftian madness begin! And following up on yesterday's essay on The Call of Cthulhu, here are some thoughts on The Colour Out of Space, by Cthulhu Alphabet contributor Jon Hook...... (Read More)

Thoughts on Call of Cthulhu

April 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Over the course of this Kickstarter, we will be bringing you essays from some of the contributors, with thoughts on some of their favorite mythos stories. Here is the first installment.... Thoughts on Call of Cthulhu By Rick Maffei Can we just talk... (Read More)

Thanks and welcome!

April 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello everyone! Just wanted to say thanks for backing The Cthulhu Alphabet - and welcome to the community! The Cthulhu Alphabet is an amazing book. Creating an amazing book requires the right people to do it. And the authors and artists who created... (Read More)

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