Basic Gameplay Overview
“No one, even those who have the facts concerning the recent horror, can say just what is the matter with Dunwich…” –H. P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
"Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before. It was, moreover, a frightful confirmation of all I had sought to dismiss as myth and dream." –H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time
"Almost eight feet tall, and carrying a cheap new valise from Osborn’s general store, this dark and goatish gargoyle appeared one day in Arkham in quest of the dreaded volume kept under lock and key at the college library—the hideous Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred in Olaus Wormius’ Latin version." –H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
"It seemed that the railway express clerk on No. 5508 had been able to recall an incident which might have much bearing on my loss…" –H.P. Lovecraft, Whisperer in Darkness
"…The headline was sensationalist. Three killings in nine days were enough to spook a town, sure. But you doubt all of New Orleans is gripped by terror, or even knows about the killings. Still, something piqued your interest." –Curse of the Rougarou
"And He shall put on the semblance of men, the waxen mask and the robe that hides, and come down from the world of Seven Suns to mock…" –H.P. Lovecraft, Whisperer in Darkness
"Jones had casually dropped into the museum one afternoon, and was wandering through the dim corridors whose horrors were now so familiar, when he heard a very peculiar sound…" –H.P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, The Horror in the Museum
"You realise, of course, the utterly stupendous nature of the matter before us. To us, as to only a few men on this earth, there will be opened up gulfs of time and space and knowledge beyond anything within the conception of human science and philosophy." –H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness
“It is hard to prevent the impression of a faint, malign odour about the village street, as of the massed mould and decay of centuries.” –H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
"We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight. We shall see these things, and other things which no breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions." –H.P. Lovecraft, From Beyond
Step into the world of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, and live the madness with the Countless Terrors 1–4 Player Playmat!
"The oceans of earth’s dreamland drop wholly to abysmal nothingness and shoot through the empty spaces toward other worlds and other stars and the awful voids outside the ordered universe where the daemon-sultan Azathoth gnaws hungrily in chaos…" –H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
"I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadow of men’s thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask." –Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask." –Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
A young woman's disappearance. A daring, resourceful dilettante. And a sleepy New England town brimming with dark and deadly secrets…
"…So numerous are the recorded troubles in insane asylums, that only a miracle can have stopped the medical fraternity from noting strange parallelisms and drawing mystified conclusions." – H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
"He was a slender man, and his face was as white as his coat was black." –Robert W. Chambers, In the Court of the Dragon
“Unsavory as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above.” –Robert W. Chambers, In the Court of the Dragon
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,Where flap the tatters of the King,Must die unheard inDim Carcosa-Robert W. Chambers
