We’re back and we’re smothering ourselves in garlic. While we’ve been assured this will protect us from vampires, we’re wondering if it might just make us more appetising to cannibals. Getting chopped up and roasted in an oven doesn’t seem anywhere near as sexy as a vampiric love bite, but maybe vampires just have better PR.
Main Topic: The Appeal of Vampires
This episode sees us enter the shadowy world of the undead. The vampire is arguably the definitive monster of the horror genre, but our fanged friends have so much more to offer. We discuss some of our favourite vampires from myth, fiction, and film, ranging from feral monsters to tragic antiheroes, and how they might inform our gaming. And while we don’t necessarily think of vampires as key to Call of Cthulhu, we discuss their place there too.
Our Guest Host
We are delighted to welcome back Josephine McAdam! As well as her many, many actual play appearances on series like
LA By Night and
Eclipse RPG, Josephine is an actor who has appeared in horror films such as
The Mortuary Collection and
Scare Package. You can find her streaming regularly on
Twitch, and on various social media platforms, as JCVIM. You will also be able to see Josephine touring the UK later this year with Chaosium, playing live games of Call of Cthulhu.
Links
Things we mention in this episode include:
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LA By Night
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New York By Night
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Lamashtu
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Lamia
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De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tomus by Michael Ranft
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Sasabonsam
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Pishtaco
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Varney the Vampire
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
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Strigoi
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Strix
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Léyak
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The Vampyre by John Polodori
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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
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Carmilla by J Sheridan le Fanu
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