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...Netflix Stories Game and THTH.

Wonder how long before it inevitably kills the apps as well.

But that shouldn't be a surprise, it routinely cancels its best shows and let's utter turkeys go on and on.

Anyone else playing on the British app Scriptic? It's been tremendously expanded into multiple games. You can play as homicide detective, hostage negotiator, love interest, paranormal investigator, judge, and so on. Choices matter massively, it's highly intelligent, and though you CAN pay, it's totally and without any restrictions free to play if you're willing to wait for a day in between sessions on any one game (other games you can continue until you hit the daily restrictions). Con: MC doesn't appear on screen at all; you interact with other characters via phone call and message board.

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You know, the one in a chest protector, helmet, and pads who geeps the koal.

Awooooooooo

Meteor Shower

This is a brilliantly funny introduction to the Cthulhu Mythos, in the form of a short illustrated novel.

Basic premise:

A boy wants to feed his pet shoggoth and let him out to play, but the shoggoth has broken out of his hutch and run away. Obviously the poor wee thing (the novel slyly encourages the reader to assume that a shoggoth is a small and helpless beast) must be terrified and lost. So - accompanied by a small cat- he sets out to look for him.

Each page describes his encounter with another denizen of the Mythos, beginning "What's this? Is this my shoggoth?" and then describing the creature encountered, then ending "no, this is ____________. This is not my shoggoth. Where's my shoggoth?"

Comes with a snakes- and-ladders style board game and a brilliantly funny "letter from the editor" at the end.

Perfect for your budding young Cthulhuist.

I came across a literal lesbian romantic comedy story set on R'lyeh on Literotica. It's got just about the whole Outer Gods/Great Old Ones pantheon put together, from Nyarlathotep to a Hound of Tindalos and Shub-Niggurath (one of the two protagonists is her daughter) to Cthulhu.

It's fairly explicit (on par for the site) so I'm not going to post the link, but you can find it as "For Whom The Shoggoth Rolls".

Yes, there's a shoggoth, too.

A Canadian horror novel/police detective story set in Vancouver in the 1980s: I read it in 1989. It includes headhunting and the recurrent appearance of a psychopathic killer named "Sparky" who beheaded victims with a sword. I actually remember the denouement well (I guessed Sparky's identity halfway through) so I can't name names. I can however say that the cover was a decapitated woman's head looking at the viewer on a white background. I just forgot the novel's title and author.

Novella-length, very hard SF story about a very far future world where the plot revolves around a probe sent into a black hole. It opens with the female protagonist lying on sand and, if I remember right, creating art with carbon tubes. She's visited by a father and daughter scientist couple from earth. The probe that is to enter black hole is equipped with the downloaded versions of the minds of the protagonist, the other project members, and (possibly) the daughter part of the visitors. Once in the black hole they attempt calculating a way to escape the event horizon but there isn't.

Can anyone help identify it?