The Xirkaali invasion of Vieshlar has begun. As the elves of the southern kindred retreat...

In this week's Gazetteer, one of our favourite post-OSR games, DURF, gets expanded, Frogs cast a spell on you and what is better than Warhammer? Warhammer and model railways, obviously.

Everything ends in mystery. -Brett Kingsford In 1965, Brett Kingsford, occultist and bon vivant, first strode out of the San Francisco fog to do battle with the horrors of the Outer Dark. Just under an hour in length, The Dark Intruder is a note-perfect occult detective story, with an evocative setting in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and a properly eldritch threat in the eponymous intruder for the daring Kingsford to face. The Dark Intruder was directed by Harvey Hart (The Alfred Hitchcock Hour), and starring Leslie Nielsen (The Forbidden Planet…

This 1959 B-Movie classic is seventy-five minutes of genial mediocrity and I can’t help but feel some affection for it. That’s mostly down to the cast, I think. Fred Graham as the sheriff is that rarest of beasts – a likeable authority figure in a monster movie; more, Graham’s Sheriff Jeff is competent and quick to accept the reality of the eponymous monster’s existence. Don Sullivan as clean-cut, all-American hero Chase Winstead is impossible not to like as he helps the sheriff in his investigation. The monster is played by a real lizard – a Mexican beaded lizard, to be exact – and while the creature appears to have no idea what’s going on, that only adds to the fun.

As the world reels in the wake of the Great War, Baron Palman Vordenburg, latest and last scion of a family of infamous Styrian monster-hunters, conti...

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