Period Missing Poster

It's not unusual for investigators to be looking for a missing person in a Call of Cthulhu scenario, but I was surprised to learn that the use of missing posters goes back well into the 19th century. Here's what one from the classic CoC era looks like:

Making a Deep One

Okay, not exactly a "Deep One", but the latest backyard effects feature from IndyMogul does involve making a suprisingly effective Fish Man on a budget. (Via Lost in Schlock.)



The black and white footage at the end demonstrates that their technique has some real possibilities, particularly if you have the time to produce some prop photographs. Return to Innsmouth, anyone?

Autopsy Diagrams

This was posted at Yog-Sothoth a while ago, but I just came across it again while doing another search. It's a selection of autopsy related forms and diagrams from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Just the thing to jazz up that mysterious death your investigators are looking into.

Ship Profiles and Deckplans

Considering how many CoC scenarios are tied to the sea it's surprising there aren't more resources describing ships from the 1920's. Here are a couple of scans of exactly that. The smaller ones are just profiles, but the largest is the full profile and deckplan from a period freighter working the lumber trade.

As always, click on the pictures here for the full sized version. I haven't cleaned these up at all so you may want to do a little retouching.

More Poison Labels

I've been on a jag for the last week or so collecting vintage labels for my Halloween display. While they don't have the allure of tentacles and ichor a couple of these can turn a bottle off your shelf into a great prop.

Vintage Poison Label:



Vintage Spanish Poison Label:

This Week's Crass Commercialism

I have two items up on Ebay this week: one of the "Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition" patches and a copy of the "Ponape Scriptures Scroll" I was working on last week. You can find my Ebay listings here.

If you like the scroll you can download the "Seal of Dagon" from it over here.

"Thing in a Jar" Tutorial

Baron Von Fogel has put together an excellent tutorial on creating extremely realistic things in a jar at the IndyMogul forums. While it's intended for use by low-budget filmmakers it doesn't take much imagination to see how they could be adapted to produce some incredible "Call of Cthulhu" props.