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October-ganza Day 26: Lovecraft Country Before ‘Arkham Unveiled’, part 2
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October 26, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

“Abduction in Arkham” (Dagon #6 – 1985): Dagon’s other entry set in Lovecraft Country, again written by editor Carl T. …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Abduction in Arkham, Alone Against the Dark, Challenge magazine, Dagon magazine, Kevin Ross, October-ganza, Spirits Over Arkham, The Devourer, the Heart of the Dark, The Horror Out of Partridgeville, The Pale God, White Dwarf magazine
October-ganza Day 25: Lovecraft Country Before ‘Arkham Unveiled’, part 1
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October 26, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

While Chaosium’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ book series serves as the foundation for the Arkham Gazette and our other Lovecraft Country work, …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Adventure Gamer magazine, Adventure Gaming magazine, And the Dogs Shall Know You, Arkham, Aylesbury Hill Graveyard, Brammelville, Dagon magazine, Death in Dunwich, Devil Reef, Gate from the Past, No Room at Innsmouth, October-ganza, Pursuit to Kadath, The Arkham Evil, The Asylum and Other Tales, The Horror on Old Hill, The Lighthouse, The Thing in the Darkness, TOME, Yog-sothoth.com
October-ganza Day 24: The Odd Migration of the Rollstone Boulder
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October 24, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

Our story today begins in the mountains of central New Hampshire at some point during the last ice age. As …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: October-ganza
October-ganza Day 23: ‘Dagon’ in New England
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October 23, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

Lovecraft made use of the name Dagon, in a short story of that name and also in “The Shadow Over …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: A Place Called Dagon, Dagon, Dagon Stones, Herbert Gorman, Merrymount, October-ganza, the J.N. Carver, Thomas Morton
October-ganza Day 22: New England’s Islands, part 3
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October 22, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

Our (unexpectedly long) tour of New England’s islands with two of the largest and most well-known, with a brief recap …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Acadia National Park, Aquidneck, Blue Balliett, Champy, Conanicut, Elizabeth Islands, Lake Champlain, Moshup, Mount Desert Island, Nantucket, Nantucket Ghosts, Newport, October-ganza, Prudence Island, Quakers, Wampanoag, Whaling
October-ganza Day 21: New England’s Islands, part 2
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October 21, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

The Thimble Islands (CT) The Thimble Islands are a small archipelago near the central Connecticut coast. Mostly made of granite, …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Captain Kidd, Ghost Island Double IPA, Hurricane of 1938, Martha's Vineyard, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, Monhegan Island, October-ganza, The Horrible Secret of Monhegan Island, Thimble Islands
October-ganza Day 20: New England’s Islands, part 1
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October 20, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

I have (slowly) been developing Namacknowatt Island, a small addition to Lovecraft County I came up with a couple years …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Appledore Island, Block Island, David Haden, Devil Reef, Ghosts, Gosport, Harry Main, Manisses, Namacknowatt Island, Niantic, Pequot War, Plum Island, Princess Augusta, S-51, Samuel Drake, The Isle of Shoals
October-ganza Day 19: Ghoulish Boston, part 2
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October 19, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

We conclude our survey of Boston’s most ghoulist spots and anecdotes… King’s Chapel’s odd enclosure An oddity often spotted, but …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Albert Scott Cox, Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Granary Burying Ground, Harvard, Jonathan Armitage, King's Chapel Burying Ground, Mary Paine, October-ganza, Re. Daille, Spunkers Club, the 'T', the Historic Burying Grounds Initiative, Ye Ancient Burying Grounds of Boston
October-ganza Day 18: Ghoulish Boston, part 1
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October 18, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

An instance is given of an empty tomb being taken possession of by some wandering vagrants, from which they terrified …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Bird Island, Boston Neck Cemetery, Captain Gruchy, City Crimes, Deer Island, George Thompson, ghouls, Long Island, Nixes' Mate, North End, Quaker Cemetery, Rainsford Island, tunnels
October-ganza Day 17: New England beverages
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October 17, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

Things have been dark, of late, here on the blog, and a little snarky (sorry, but reading all those ”ghost’ …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Autocrat, Beverages, Cabinet, Coffee Milk, Dr. Augustin Thompson, Dunkin' Donuts, Eclipse, Frappes, gentian root, Moxie, New England, Switchel, Woonsocket

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Author Archives: Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

October-ganza Day 26: Lovecraft Country Before ‘Arkham Unveiled’, part 2

October-ganza Day 25: Lovecraft Country Before ‘Arkham Unveiled’, part 1

October-ganza Day 24: The Odd Migration of the Rollstone Boulder

October-ganza Day 23: ‘Dagon’ in New England

October-ganza Day 22: New England’s Islands, part 3

October-ganza Day 21: New England’s Islands, part 2

October-ganza Day 20: New England’s Islands, part 1

October-ganza Day 19: Ghoulish Boston, part 2

October-ganza Day 18: Ghoulish Boston, part 1

October-ganza Day 17: New England beverages

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