Pyramid Pick: The Black Seal #1

Pyramid Pick

The Black Seal #1 (for Call of Cthulhu)

Published by Brichester University Press

Edited by Adam Crossingham and Jonathon Turner
Written by Nick Brownlow, Adam Crossingham, Rik Kershaw Moore, Nick Lowson, Davide Mana, Graeme Price, Jonathon Turner, Hans-Christian Vortisch and Phil Ward
Illustrated by Robert Corcoran, Stephane Gesbert, Paul J. Holden, David Lee Ingersoll, Charlotte Ronald

$13

Over a decade ago, Games Workshop published Green and Pleasant Land, a guide to the British Isles during the twenties and thirties for Call of Cthulhu. Until Chaosium's recent release of Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and less pleasant places, there had been no modern analog for the United Kingdom for either the nineties or the twenty-first century. Even then, the material to be found in Goatswood . . . can only really to be said to be the bare minimum necessary to run a game of Call of Cthulhu in modern Britain. Thus there are still plenty of gaps to be filled in what a Keeper needs to know, and this is where the inaugural issue of The Black Seal comes to the fore as it is subtitled, "Strange Britain, Secret Country."

The Black Seal is a new fanzine for Call of Cthulhu, devoted specifically to Cthulhu Now and Pagan Publishing's Delta Green campaign settings. Many of its authors -- a coterie of Britons leavened by a pair of European contributors -- are both subscribers to the Delta Green mailing list and contributors to the Delta Green: Countdown supplement.

The head of Delta Green has declared . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: August 16, 2002

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