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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 2d

Did contemporary readers question Derleth’s claims of Lovecraft’s involvement regarding his “collaborations” with Lovecraft?

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 2d

The party comes together and the investigation takes shape…

The Old Ways 🔜 Gamehole Con @theoldways.bsky.social · 3d

Our series, The Queen of the Night, returns today with episode four! Starring @mrspike.bsky.social @jedigirl.bsky.social @fieryashes.bsky.social and @aliravey.bsky.social !

#callofcthulhu

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The Old Ways Podcast - Call of Cthulhu - The Queen of the Night - Part Four

With a keen interest to investigate Robbin's Hill, Detective Locke and Thurgoods head back to dig a little deeper. Catherine makes a surprise appearance.

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 3d

In a twist perhaps familiar to Call of Cthulhu players, a side investigation of mine has uncovered evidence that a gravestone carver though to have died in 1771 in Pennsylvania lived at least to 1778, perhaps longer, in New York State.

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Benjamin Lovejoy (d. 1772) gravestone probably carved by William Holland. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38501158/benjamin-lovejoy

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 6d

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James Hetfield and the News - "Hip to Be the Sandman"

YouTube video by Bill McClintock

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 7d

As Sun Tzu wrote “Bang! Bang! pew pew pew! Yeehaw! Ka-boom!!!”

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 7d

My annual listen as October begins and Halloween beckons - “All Saints’ Eve” by Leah Bodine Drake (published by Arkham House in 1950) as read by Vincent Price. It’s like the essence of the season in 80 seconds:

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All Saints' Eve

YouTube video by Vincent Price - Topic

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 16d

Some of those masks look familiar…

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The Old Ways 🔜 Gamehole Con @theoldways.bsky.social · 17d

Our Arkham series - The Queen of the Night - returns for part two! Join us for a terrifying phone call and so much more.

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#callofcthulhu
#horror
#ttrpg
#actualplay

The Old Ways Podcast - Call of Cthulhu - The Queen of the Night - Part Two

Detective Locke is awoken by a terrible phone call. Annie confesses to Charles about her experiences in the woods, as Catherine's class work at Miskatonic University turns up something strange.

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 17d

Putting the Con into Panopticon

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 22d

Why not Charles Ezekiel Cheese?

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 23d

多喝阿華田?

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Michael Diamond (He/Him) 🔜Gamehole Con @oldwaysmichael.bsky.social · 24d

Release day is here and our Queen of the Night is coming!

We hope you join us for this special tale. Huge thanks to @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social for requesting we take up this story! It's been great fun so far.

The Old Ways 🔜 Gamehole Con @theoldways.bsky.social · 24d

Our debut episode of The Queen of the Night is here!

Join @fieryashes.bsky.social @jedigirl.bsky.social @aliravey.bsky.social and @mrspike.bsky.social for this classic Call of Cthulhu tale led by @oldwaysmichael.bsky.social

Fair Arkham awaits!

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The Old Ways Podcast - Call of Cthulhu - The Queen of the Night - Part One

On Halloween night all manner of creatures walk the streets, some are ghosts from years past, while others are flesh and blood of the sinister kind. Tonight we meet four souls unaware of how their liv...

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 24d

😄 It’s quite delicious (in moderation), I swear.

This egg nog wishes you a Happy Christmas

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 24d

According to Clark Ashton Smith “a mass without head or members, spawning the grey, formless efts of the prime and the grisly prototypes of terrene life... And all earthly life, it is told, shall go back at last through the great circle of time to [it]” flavored with cinnamon and/or nutmeg.

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 24d

Look out! Hippies!!

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 24d

I believe this will be the first actual play of our scenario “The Queen of Night” (from Arkham Gazette 3, by @umlauthuth.bsky.social and myself) I am VERY excited.

The Old Ways 🔜 Gamehole Con @theoldways.bsky.social · 26d

Monday is just around the corner. Backers are getting the first three episodes on the 15th and you won't want to miss the start of this spooky tale!

Check out the trailer and then stop by the Patreon to support the show!

Michael Diamond (He/Him) 🔜Gamehole Con @oldwaysmichael.bsky.social · 27d

If you haven't checked out our teaser trailer for, The Queen of the Night, coming to @theoldways.bsky.social - take 1 minute and do so.

We're bringing a brand new Call of Cthulhu mini-series to you just in time for spooky season!

#callofcthulhu
#horror
#actualplay

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 25d

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 25d

I don’t know who changed the timeline so that egg nog is for sale in mid-September, but thanks, I guess.

An unseasonably early carton of egg nog.

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 25d

Showing Calvin Walker was paid $10 for the Ichabod Orcutt stone in West Stafford CT. This was supplemented by some yet to be published work from Bob Drinkwater which uncovered a separate payment to Sylvanus.
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Ichabod Orcutt (unknown-1810) - Find a Grave...

Orcutt, Ichabod, died Feb. 24, 1810, age 75 yrs.

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 25d

Val Harriss and Derek Strahan @gravestones-ne.bsky.social did all the on-the-ground research, connecting the quarry to the Cushman and Walker families, building out the extended Walker family tree, proving they were stone cutters, and finding a “smoking gun” probate record…

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A later “willow” stone carved by, I think, our unknown Walker. Lucy Scott, d. 1811. Palmer, MA.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80827085/lucy-scott

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 25d

The key to solving this mystery was discovering Slater’s inventory of “Greek Girl” stones missed a substantial group of them in Stafford CT and locating a quarry nearby where the unusual type of stone (a type of quartzite called Clough Whitestone) they used could be found. 2/

Val Harriss and Bob Drinkwater with the Dorothy Walker stone in Brookfield, MA.

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · 25d

This year I’ve been helping out a small team trying to identify the unknown gravestone carver James Slater dubbed “Greek Girl”. Turns out there were probably 3 carvers; Sylvanus Walker Jr., his son Calvin Walker, and another yet to be IDed.

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Headstone of Betty King (d. 1810) in Palmer MA. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80826836/betty-king

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Old Ways podcast crew will be doing a run-through of our scenario “The Queen of Night” (from Arkham Gazette 3) starting 9/15 I can wait to listen!

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Coming Soon: The Queen of the Night - An Arkham Investigation Series | The Old Ways

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · Sep 6

A great deal of the book is based on the author’s claimed experience as a reformed “spiritualist” and his favorite type of evidence is second-hand anecdote.

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Plenty of Hearsay and Conjecture (from "The Day The Violence Died") #simpsons

YouTube video by BJ the Simpson Collector

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Sentinel Hill Press @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social · Sep 6

Your grandfather is Alice Cooper?!? ;)

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