Thursday, July 25, 2019

Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown, date unknown

A Cat Walks
A Change for the Hearse
A Date to Die
A Fine Night for Murder
A Little White Lye
A Lock of Satan's Hair
A Matter of Death
A Matter of Taste
A Voice Behind Him
A Word from Our Sponsor
Abominable
Aelurophobe
All Good Bems
The Amy Waggoner Murder Case
And the Gods Laughed
The Angelic Angleworm
Answer
Arena
Armageddon
Bear Possibility
Before She Kills
Big-League Larceny
Big-Top Doom
The Blind Lead
Blood of the Dragon
Blood
The Bloody Moonlight
Bloody Murder
Blue Murder
Boner
Bright Beard
The Bucket of Gems Case (Mr Smith Kicks the Bucket)
Bullet for Bullet
Cadavers Don't Make a Fifth Column
Cartoonist (Garrigan's Bems)
The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches
Cat Burglar
The Cat from Siam
The Cheese on Stilts
Client Unknown
Clue in Blue
Come and Go Mad
Compliments of a Fiend
The Corpse and the Candle
Crisis, 1999
Cry Silence.
Daisies
Dark Interlude
Daymare
Dead Man's Indemnity
The Dead Ringer
Deadly Weekend
Death and Nine Lives.
Death Has Many Doors
Death in the Dark (The Black Dark)
Death Insurance Payment
Death is a Noise
Death is a White Rabbit
Death of a Vampire
Death on the Mountain
Death's Dark Angel
The Deep End
Device of the Turtle (Six-Legged Swengali)
The Devil's Woodwinds
The Discontented Cows
The Djinn Murder
The Dome
Don't Look Behind You
Double Murder
Double Standard
Each Night He Died (Cain)
Earthmen Bearing Gifts
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Encore for a Killer
Etaoin Shrdlu
Expedition
Experiment
The Fabulous Clipjoint
The Far Cry
Fatal Facsimile
The First Time Machine
Fish Story
Five-Day Nightmare
Footprints on the Ceiling
The Four Blind Men
Four Letter Word (The Greatest Poem Ever Written)
The Freak Show Murders
From These Ashes (Entity Trap)
The Frownzly Florgels
Fugitive Impostor
The Gamblers
Gateway to Darkness (Small World)
Gateway to Glory
The Geezenstacks
Get Out of Town
The Ghost Breakers
The Ghost of Riley
The Gibbering Night
Granny's Birthday
Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility
Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability
Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality
Hall of Mirrors
Handbook for Homicide
Happy Ending
The Hat Trick
The Hatchetman
Heil, Werewolf
Herbie Rides His Hunch
Here Comes a Candle
Here Comes the Hearse
His Name Was Death
The Hobbyist
Homicide Sanitarium.
Honeymoon in Hell
Horse Race
Hound of Hell (Beware of the Dog)
The House
If Looks Could Kill (The Joke)
I'll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen
I'll See You At Midnight
Imagine
The Incredible Bomber
Instant Novellas (20 Stories in 60 Lines)
It Didn't Happen
The Jabberwocky Murders
Jaycee
Keep Out
The King Comes Home
Knock Three-One-Two
Knock
Last Curtain (Cream of the Jest)
The Last Martian
The Last Train
The Late Lamented
The Laughing Butcher
Legacy of Murder
The Lenient Beast
The Letter (Dead Letter)
Letter to a Phoenix
Life and Fire
The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (Project Jupiter)
Line of Duty
Listen to the Mocking Bird
Little Apple Hard to Peel
Little Boy Lost
The Little Green Men
The Little Lamb
Mad Dog!
Madball
Madman's Holiday
Man of Distinction
Market for Murder
Martians, Go Home
Me and Flapjack and the Martians
The Men Who Went Nowhere
Millennium
The Mind Thing
Miss Darkness
The Missing Actor
Mitkey Rides Again
The Monkey Angle
The Moon for a Nickel
Moon Over Murder
The Motive Goes Round and Round
The Murderers
Mrs. Murphy's Underpants
Murder and Matilda
Murder at 10:15
Murder Can Be Fun
Murder Draws a Crowd
Murder in Furs
Murder in Miniature
Murder Set to Music
Murder While You Wait
Murder-on-the-Hudson
Nasty
Naturally
The New One
Night of the Jabberwock
Night of the Psycho
The Night the World Ended
Nightmare in Blue
Nightmare in Gray
Nightmare in Green
Nightmare in Red
Nightmare in Time (The End)
Nightmare in White
Nightmare in Yellow
No Sanctuary
The Nose of Don Aristide
Not Yet the End
Nothing Sinister
Nothing Sirius
Number Bug
The Numberless Shadows
Obit for Obie
Of Time and Eustace Weaver (The Short Happy Lives of E. Weaver I-II-III)
The Office
One for the Road
Paradox Lost
Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter
Pattern
The Perfect Crime (Fatal Error)
Pi in the Sky
The Pickled Punks
Placet is a Crazy Place
Politeness
The Power (Rebound)
The Prehistoric Clue
Premiere of Murder
Preposterous
Puppet Show
Recessional
Reconciliation
Red is the Hue of Hell
Red-Hot and Hunted
The Ring of Hans Carvel
Rogue in Space
Rope Trick
Rustle of Wings
The Santa Claus Murders
Satan One-and-a-Half
Satan's Search Warrant
The Screaming Mimi
Search
Second Chance
Selling Death Short
Sentence
Sentry
The Sinister Mr. Dexter (House of Fear)
Six-Gun Song
The Sleuth from Mars
Solipsist
Something Green
Song of the Dead
The Spherical Ghoul
The Star Mouse
Star-Spangled Night
Starvation (Runaround)
The Strange Sisters Strange
The Stranger from Trouble Valley
Suite for Flute and Tommy Gun
The Switcheroo
Tale of the Flesh Monger (Ten Percenter)
Tell 'em, Pagliaccio
Ten Tickets to Hades (Murder in Ten Easy Lessons)
There Are Bloodstains in the Alley
Thirty Corpses Every Thursday
This Way Out
Three Corpse Parlay
Three Little Owls
To Slay a Man About a Dog (Shaggy Dog Murders)
Too Far
Town Wanted
Trial By Darkness
Trouble Comes Double
Trouble in a Teacup (Teacup Trouble)
Twenty Gets You Plenty
Twice-Killed Corpse
Two Biers for Two
Two Timer
The Undying Ones (Obedience)
Unfortunately
Vengeance Unlimited (Vengeance Fleet)
Voodoo
Walk in the Shadows
The Waveries
We All Killed Grandma
The Weapon
The Wench is Dead
What Mad Universe
Wheels Across the Night
Where There's Smoke
Whispering Death
Whistler's Murder
Who Did I Murder
Who Was That Blonde I Saw You Kill Last Night?
Why, Benny, Why
The Wicked Flea
Witness in the Dark
The Yehudi Principle
You'll Die Before Dawn
You'll End Up Burning
Your Name in Gold

Thursday, June 27, 2019

John Bellairs

The Face in the Frost

Johnny Dixon Series

  • The Curse of the Blue Figurine
  • The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt
  • The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull
  • The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost
  • The Eyes of the Killer Robot
  • The Trolley to Yesterday
  • The Chessmen of Doom
  • The Secret of the Underground Room
  • The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie
  • The Hand of the Necromancer
  • The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder
  • The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost

Lewis Barnavelt Series

  • The House with a Clock in Its Walls
  • The Figure in the Shadows
  • The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring
  • The Ghost in the Mirror
  • The Vengeance of the Witch-finder
  • The Doom of the Haunted Opera
  • The Specter from the Magician's Museum
  • The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge
  • The Tower at the End of the World
  • The Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost
  • The House Where Nobody Lived
  • The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer

Anthony Monday Series

  • The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn
  • The Dark Secret of Weatherend
  • The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb
  • The Mansion in the Mist 

Friday, May 31, 2019

Blog Index

The purpose of this blog is to create a cyclopedia of elements from the works of various Appendix N works, and to give them statistics suitable for use with Dungeon Crawl Classics, Mutant Crawl Classics, Dark Trails, Star Crawl, and related games.

Where such already exists with within published materials for these games, I will attempt to point them out. The intent of this post is to act as an index, allowing the discerning reader to quickly locate posts related to a particular author or series (as they appear). If materials appear on other blogs (that I am aware of), I will try to cross-link them as well. I will not necessarily provide new statistics where published statistics already exist.

This work differs from the Appendix N Book Club and Sanctum Secorum podcasts in that (1) the works themselves are not described in terms of plot, relevance to gaming, or anything else, and (2) statistics provided will relate only to the work in question whenever possible. I highly recommend both podcasts, however, and intend to link to relevant episodes as possible.

It is hoped that you will use these materials in your home game and, perhaps, be inspired to read the source material.

Appendix N

Anderson, Poul
Bellairs, John
Brackett, Leigh
Brown, Frederic
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Carter, Lin
de Camp, L. Sprague
de Camp, L. Sprague  & Fletcher Pratt
Derleth, August
Dunsany, Lord
Farmer, P. J.
Fox, Gardner
Howard, R. E.
Lanier, Sterling
Leiber, Fritz
Lovecraft, H. P.
Merritt, A.
Moorcock, Michael
Norton, Andre
Offutt, Andrew J.
Pratt, Fletcher
Saberhagen, Fred
St. Clair, Margaret
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Vance, Jack
Weinbaum, Stanley
Wellman, Manley Wade
Williamson, Jack
Zelazny, Roger

Additional

Bierce, Ambrose
EC Comics
Moore, C.L.
Smith, Clark Ashton