Horror Action & Mystery in the shoals of the Earth What&s the hardest part of running a game? It has to be the preparation You can&t just spontaneously say " Let&s play a roleplaying game" unless someone&s already spent hours preparing an adventure for the group But what if running a great game did require any more effort for the game master than it does for the players? Strange Revelations makes prepping for an RPG no more difficult or time consuming than setting up a board game while showcasing the wonder & weirdness of the many recursions lying in the Shoals of Earth This is a must-have for beginning & veteran GMs of The Strange These aren&t adventure seeds
- they&re complete adventures in an innovative format that requires minimal prep Run them as one-shots or drop them into your ongoing campaign when you don&t have time to prep your own adventures You can even run them together as a campaign for months of effortless play!
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Join award-winning storyteller Scott Morse as he hurtles the varied worlds of our popular culture through time & space their collision resulting in a most unique amalgam of STRANGE SCIENCE FANTASY! Untold tales of gods like the Headlight the Shogunaut the Projectionist GIGantic & the Foolish Fling will merge into a fantastic new tome of pop-culture as religion & you dear readers will be the first to take communion! Also this volume collects all six one-page tales by the critically-acclaimed comics juggernaut Paul Pope produced exclusively for SSF! ...

A missing woman A missing boy Detective Erlendur returns
- for the last time A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland
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The La Fleur restaurant has a slew of unusual phenomena Bonnet-clad apparitions pass through walls blood leaks from ceilings & rats besiege the dining room Experts from the Great Essex Witch Museum are called in to quell these strange sights But before Rosie Strange & Sam Stone can do their thing events turn darker For La Fleur's chef has been strung up & slaughtered like a pig More oddly the only witness the owner's daughter Mary swears blind a ghost did it Rosie & Sam must find out what's happening before Mary takes the fall But intuitions & tip-offs lead them stumbling into the dark waters of the past exposing secrets of a wider conspiracy as well as secrets all Rosie's own With strange chills Rosie & Sam learn that seeing isn't always believing while thoughts of truth may be just as illusory ...

Comics& top talents including some making their Vertigo debut take on the classic DC Comics anthology title for four issues of strange scary sexy & sensational sports stories Featuring stories & art by Brian Azzarello CM Punk Paul Pope Gilbert Hernandez Lauren Beukes Ben Mc Cool Ivan Brandon Monica Gallagher Lee Loughridge Nick Dragotta Christopher Mitten Darick Robertson Mark Finn John Lucas Gabe Soria Ronald Wimberly Michael Di Motta Tim Fish Rael Lyra & many more! Collects issues 1-4 ...

Four short novels from the author of THE FIREMAN & HORNS ranging from creepy horror to powerful explorations of our modern society One autumnal day in Boulder Colorado the clouds open up in a downpour of nails splinters of bright crystal that tear apart anyone who isn't safely under cover ' Rain' explores this escalating apocalyptic event as clouds of nails spread out across the country & the world Amidst the chaos a girl studying law enforcement takes it upon herself to resolve a series of almost trivial mysteries apparently harmless puzzles that turn out to have lethal answers In ' Loaded' a mall security guard heroically stops a mass shooting & becomes a hero to the modern gun movement Under the hot glare of the spotlights though his story begins to unravel taking his sanity with it ' Snapshot 1988' tells the story of an kid in Silicon Valley who finds himself threatened by The Phoenician a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid that can steal memories And in ' Aloft' a young man takes to the skies to experience parachuting for the first time & winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud a Prospero's island of roiling vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own ...

Tsukiko is in her late 30s & living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers ' Sensei' in a bar He is at least thirty years her senior retired & she presumes a widower After this initial encounter the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food & drink sake & as the seasons pass
- from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms
- Tsukiko & Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly & poignantly into love Perfectly constructed funny & moving Strange Weather in Tokyo is a tale of modern Japan & old-fashioned romance

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Painstakingly illustrated in a photo-realistic style the first Strangehaven trade paperback Arcadia collects issues 1 through 6 of the critically acclaimed & award winning comic book series Alex Hunter awakes from a car crash only to find himself trapped in a deceptively idyllic village deep in the English countryside He soon encounters some of the village&s bizarre inhabitants including an Amazonian shaman a man who claims to be from the planet Nimoi a woman with talking pets & the mysterious clandestine brotherhood The Knights of the Golden Light But who is the woman in the fish tank?

Includes:: an introduction by Cerebus creator Dave Sim The second Strangehaven trade paperback Brotherhoood collects issues 7 through 12 of the critically acclaimed & award winning series Alex Hunter tries to make sense of being trapped in England&s weirdest village the ghost of the beautiful woman who haunts his dreams & why the villagers celebrate Christmas in mid-summer The Amazonian Shaman Megaron reveals his tribe&s deadly cycle of vengeance & the village&s resident extraterrestrial Adam explains away the UFO phenomenon while behind the scenes a clandestine brotherhood pulls the strings Beautifully illustrated with pencil pen & ink painted watercolor & manipulated photographs With an introduction by Heart of Empire creator Bryan Talbot Strangehaven won the 1997 National Comic Award for Best Independent Comic & has also been nominated for an Eagle Award two Eisner Awards two Ignatz Awards & two CCG Awards over the past four years Strangehaven has also recently been optioned for TV & film by Hollywood production house Laninco

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Alex Hunter tries to make sense of being trapped in England's weirdest village the ghost of the beautiful woman who haunts his dreams & why the villagers celebrate Christmas in mid-summer The Amazonian Shaman Megaron reveals his tribe's deadly cycle of vengeance; & the village's resident extraterrestrial Adam explains away the UFO phenomenon while behind the scenes a clandestine brotherhood pulls the strings A complex & intriguing journey through romance mystery & the supernatural with a twist of bizarre humor beautifully illustrated with pencil pen & ink painted watercolor & manipulated photographs Introduction by Heart of Empire creator Bryan Talbot New full-color painted cover by Millidge ...

In the isolated quirky village of Strangehaven
- hidden in the depths of the English countryside
- the village's police Sergeant

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