"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

#Spooktober 27 – The Darkest Dungeon

I’m talking about the first one. The second one is… well, I don’t know what the second one is. Released in 2016, this game mixed medieval elements with a Lovecraftian atmosphere of epic proportions where you have to lead a party of four adventurers through a set of creepy explorations in order to gain resources, hire more adventurers and eventually break the curse looming over the estate. But adventurers will go insane, facing the horrors looming below (and above, honestly), so you’ll have to tread carefully.

Memorable characters from history and legend, such as the leper crusader and the plague doctor, will face their nightly dose of horrible foes only to return to the hamlet and seek solace in… a good flagellation? A night at the asylum? A sip of laudanum at the inn? Pick your poison. Literally.
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Sabine Baring-Gould — A Christmas Tree

Tom Mountstephen was dressed in his very best—a black coat, a tie of blue satin studded with veritable planets, and in it a new zodiacal sign—a fox in full career, that formed the head of a pin. Tom’s collar was so stiffly starched and so

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Marjorie Bowen — Raw Material

Linley was fond of collecting what he called “raw material” and, as a fairly successful barrister, he had good opportunity for doing so. He despised novelists and romancists, yet one day he hoped to become one of these gentry himself, hence his collection of the

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