The OctoberNomicon Is Opening Once Again

October approaches, and something is scratching at the margins of the manuscript.

For more than twenty years, Shoggoth.net’s OctoberNomicon has spent the Halloween season filling the world with things that ought not exist: monsters drawn from folklore and urban legend, forgotten horrors recovered from weird fiction, original creatures dragged screaming from the imaginations of our contributors, and stories documenting what happened when somebody encountered them.

Now we need your help to open it again.

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Moon Crafting

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Seven nights of waxing moon, and a candle rendered from someone you knew.

Cost: 2 POW, 1D4 Sanity. Casting Time: 7 days.

This spell allows for the creation of an enchanted weapon at unusually small cost in POW. A number of very specific conditions must be met.

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The Palimpsest Hound

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A reconstructed Tindalosian manifestation for Cthulhu Eternal

The first photograph showed four depressions in wet plaster, too deep for fingertips and too evenly spaced to be tools.

The second showed the same marks six feet higher, up where the wall met the ceiling.

The pathologist laid both photographs beside the victim’s wounds. He did not notice the room getting colder. He drew four lines between the punctures and added an arc to show how far the jaw had probably spread.

Something above him grew a mouth.

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The Unremembering

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Protocol U-3: interruption of Tindalosian observer correlation

Circulation restriction. No practitioner may keep a complete copy of this protocol after performing it. Distribute the sections among the attending personnel and assemble them only once the subject is in isolation.

Earlier editions told the attending physician to memorize the procedure. That instruction killed the people who followed it.

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Murdertoys

A pack of murdertoys advancing at night: a doll with a knife, a hook-studded teddy bear, and more bears behind them with glowing eyes.

The toys have been in the box longer than the child has been in the house.

Throughout history, toys have brought merriment and joy to children of all ages. Dolls and teddy bears are widespread across cultures, varying in size and materials, from simple scraps of cloth bound by twine and crudely painted faces to elaborate, articulated figures of plastic, porcelain, and soft fur.

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The Scent

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An applied field guide to contamination after Tindalosian contact

Mercer never saw the thing again.

He changed trains seven times. He paid cash, threw away his clothes, shaved his head, and would only sleep in rooms whose corners he could smother with pillows. He stopped using his own name and he never went home. Three weeks later a landlady in Prague found him folded into an angle far too small to hold a man.

Everyone assumed the Hound had followed him. But the trail worth studying did not end with Mercer at all. It ended with his sister, back home, who still had the letter he had written to explain why he ran.

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Father Julius Mills

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A helping hand with a sinister agenda…

This man, of average height and appearance, has a face that easily blends into a crowd. This is intentional, as he likes to work unnoticed. In the past he has been an army chaplain (retired with the rank of captain), a medical doctor, and a Catholic priest specializing in the rites of exorcism. He works as a lone mythos investigator, using his wide array of skills, knowledge, expertise, and combat training to battle the forces of the Cthulhu Mythos and defend humanity from its evil and corruption. He often waits and watches people or places he suspects to be tainted by the Cthulhu Mythos, and then moves against it when the time is right.

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The Tindalosian Observation Problem

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A speculative physical model of angular time, observation, and the Hounds of Tindalos

There is an old, uncharitable way of reading “The Hounds of Tindalos”: a man drugs himself, peers somewhere he shouldn’t, attracts a predator, and gets eaten for his trouble. It reads the story as a cautionary tale about curiosity. I have never found it satisfying, because it leaves every interesting question on the table. Why plaster? Why corners? Why does being seen matter to a thing that can move through time?

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Endlichwerden

SPECIAL OCTOBERNOMICON PREVIEW
“Time is the fire in which we burn.”
~ Delmore Schwartz
SPECIAL OCTOBERNOMICON PREVIEW

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I’m Back, Bitches!

“And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete.
I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
“
—Narrator, Fight Club

I’m back. Where’ve I been? Doesn’t matter. You wouldn’t believe me even if I told ya the truth and, honestly, I’m not sure I would. Okay, that’s not fair: I wouldn’t believe me. I wouldn’t trust myself to know what’s real and what I’m twisting to not be “the bad guy” or…I dunno, some kind of fuck up? And even if I stuck to the truth, whose truth am I sticking to? I mean, they say there’s at least two sides to every story but I think it’s more like a kaleidoscope, shifting in real time and changing right before your eyes as an outside hand acts upon it. Everyone who looks through it is going to see things a bit differently.

I will say that I’ve missed Shoggoth Net. It’s kinda like the old Lovecraft Circle but without the racism. People writing in with entries for OctoberNomicon or Shoggoths in September. One year, February was all about vampires. Money wasn’t a thing. People were doing it for…I don’t really know. Just for the sake of writing and being part of the community or something. All I know is we’d put a call out for submissions and, bit-by-bit, we’d fill up an entire month with new community content.

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