Summer Book Club #3 - Mall of Cthulhu, by Seamus Cooper
Release Date: 09/13/2024
Modern Mythos #42 - Adapting Other Media to Your Games Table
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
Today, we’re talking about adapting elements from movies, TV, and books into your game. But first, we want to thank author Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger for sponsoring this episode. Check out “Under a Black Rainbow,” a collection of surrealistic horror stories. The worlds within Under a Black Rainbow oozes with all of our irrational thoughts and collective fears, pooling them up together in slickery shine and gives them both a voice and an unforgettable form. The underside of this particular rainbow is where the absurdity of Kafka, the dark fairy tales of Guillermo...
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Summer Book Club #3 - Mall of Cthulhu, by Seamus Cooper
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
Summer Book Club #3, Mall of Cthulhu, by Seamus Cooper! Thank you to our sponsor, Poul Holmelund, and his new Call of Cthulhu scenario, Lost in Cremation, a sequel to The Art of Hygge. Lost in Cremation: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/481189/lost-in-cremation?affiliate_id=51821 Jon and James talk about this inaugural book by author, Seamus Cooper, and (spoilers!) we loved it! Here is the Amazon blurb: A decade ago, college student Laura Harker was saved from a fate worse than death at the hands (and fangs) of a centuries-old vampire priestess and her Satanic minions....
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Modern Mythos - ep.41
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
In this episode, Jon and Seth talk about our favorite grave-mold covered cannibals... ghouls! Episode Sponsor: The Great American Dynasty We want to thank author Keller O’Leary and Space Cat Publishing for sponsoring this episode. Check out “The Great American Dynasty,” a true-blue, red-blooded, modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario! Investigators are tasked with retrieving old files hidden in the home of a fellow “society” member who passed away from (seemingly) natural causes. The scenario blends iconic American folklore together with Lovecraftian Mythos to weave a story with...
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Thank you to Adam Rodenberger!
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
I wanted to thank Adam for his generous support of the podcast. He sponsored the second Summer Book Club episode, and I neglected to include a link to his book, so I wanted to rectify it here. Please check out this amazing collection of twisted short stories today!
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Summer Book Club #2
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
Up next in the Summer Book Club, Writing Monsters, by Philip Athans! Listen as Jon and James discuss this (spoilers) AMAZING book on writing and designing monsters. The book is written from the perspective that the advice is for authors writing books, but the advice is equally applicable to authors writing roleplaying game adventures. Writing Monsters, by Philip Athans:
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Summer Book Club - Shadows Over Baker Street
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
Welcome to the first of three Summer Book Club episodes! Your hosts are Jon Hook and James Droucker. Please forgive James' audio quality. We were so excited for the book club reading that we overlooked the need to have better quality sound. Please enjoy this episode as James and I discuss the stories contained within this excellent anthology, Shadows Over Baker Street. Sponsor: Fire Lizard Games - Shadows Over Baker Street:
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13 Bak'tun - Ep.5 - Actual Conclusion!!!
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 2: The Thirteen Bak'tun, by Jonathan Bagelman Cast: David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Joe Hockin as Marcus Djuric, a bold Private Investigator, and as Paolo Ortega, an intrepid native explorer Matt Repp as Gregory Lawrence Hildebrandt, a well-intentioned dilettante Bryan Stephens as Ezra Irish, a fearless cowboy and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence, and is used with permission. Visit his Bandcamp site at: It is September...
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Modern Mythos - ep.40
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
In this episode, Jon and Seth talk about Actual Play Games -- how to make them, what traits they share with normal podcast recordings, and how they differ. Episode Sponsor: The Great American Dynasty, by Keller O’Leary, published by Space Cat Publishing. The Great American Dynasty is a true-blue, red-blooded, modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario! Investigators are tasked with retrieving old files hidden in the home of a fellow “society” member who passed away from (seemingly) natural causes. The scenario blends iconic American folklore together with Lovecraftian Mythos to weave a story...
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The 13 Bak'tun - Episode 4
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 2: The Thirteen Bak'tun, by Jonathan Bagelman Cast: David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Joe Hockin as Marcus Djuric, a bold Private Investigator, and as Paolo Ortega, an intrepid native explorer Matt Repp as Gregory Lawrence Hildebrandt, a well-intentioned dilettante Bryan Stephens as Ezra Irish, a fearless cowboy and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence, and is used with permission. Visit his Bandcamp site at: It is September...
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The 13 Bak'tun - Episode 3
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 2: The Thirteen Bak'tun, by Jonathan Bagelman Cast: David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Joe Hockin as Marcus Djuric, a bold Private Investigator, and as Paolo Ortega, an intrepid native explorer Matt Repp as Gregory Lawrence Hildebrandt, a well-intentioned dilettante Bryan Stephens as Ezra Irish, a fearless cowboy and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence, and is used with permission. Visit his Bandcamp site at: It is September...
info_outlineSummer Book Club #3, Mall of Cthulhu, by Seamus Cooper!
Thank you to our sponsor, Poul Holmelund, and his new Call of Cthulhu scenario, Lost in Cremation, a sequel to The Art of Hygge.
Lost in Cremation: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/481189/lost-in-cremation?affiliate_id=51821
Jon and James talk about this inaugural book by author, Seamus Cooper, and (spoilers!) we loved it! Here is the Amazon blurb:
A decade ago, college student Laura Harker was saved from a fate worse than death at the hands (and fangs) of a centuries-old vampire priestess and her Satanic minions. Her rescuer, an awkward, geeky folklore student named Teddy, single-handedly slew the undead occupants of the Omega Alpha sorority house, spurred into heroic action by fate itself, inexorably intertwining his and Laura’s destinies.
After navigating her way through law school, Laura is now a junior FBI agent assigned to the Bureau’s Boston office. Unfortunately, she finds her job involves more paperwork than adventure. Ted, on the other hand, has spent the past decade perfecting the ultimate latte, and works as a barista in a nearby corporate chain coffeehouse named for a character in Moby Dick.
When Ted stumbles onto a group of Cthulhu cultists planning to awaken the Old Ones through mystic incantations culled from the fabled Necronomicon, calling forth eldritch horrors into an unsuspecting world, he and Laura must spring into action, traveling from Boston to the seemingly-peaceful suburbs of Providence and beyond, all the way to the sanity-shattering non-Euclidian alleyways and towers of dread R’lyeh itself, in order to prevent an innocent shopping center from turning into... The Mall of Cthulhu.
Mall of Cthulhu, by Seamus Cooper: https://www.amazon.com/Mall-Cthulhu-Seamus-Cooper/dp/1597801275/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3I2GMRHKMUO3N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.XxwIkhSJEo4hlzLDhl6nq1lyS-mylXJXw6tfcMo5lzbRg1ns-Sur1B-qgjypuryJg5bPEZmalAhoR2RHQlibA5JtAnLGan0NM-vdVKDlMcK80cx140XjpwyC1NWI5zdWt5S_jzBTwBOB-qsSufzO9EnP1pkWjQ_3lmzljfEyKwkZAsjTYBgVQlvnjB7clrzE5ZN9pOjK3pRaihWlt0qU9zmPE5uCjpwfhJohVSYOXZT2AXgM6DPpSPiQgFCKYQ8bvC5boLmdWbG_kNo6KrUpJ9yglxwFDj45wwgIl1UCfRs.WOm9qL9H1El44N4yRPYcWG75vqzryKsizNKSNdFDRL0&dib_tag=se&keywords=mall+of+cthulhu&qid=1726007285&sprefix=mall+of+cth%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-1