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Eibon wrote:I am and Englishman in his Forties, who's day job is working with computers, but who by night is a mild-mannered Weird fiction writer and illustrator. I discovered Howard, Lovecraft and Smith, in that order, from the late 70s to the mid 80s as I got into Role Playing Games. By the Mid-Eighties I was contributing art to British fanzines (Dagon, Descending Darkness, Cerebratron) and almost got my first publish fiction then (but not quite). I did a lot of processing the Cthulhu Mythos -- writing glossaries, lists and book fragments -- because if you where a Hindu, you had texts you could find out what the mythology was about, but for Cthulhu there was no "primary" text, only "secondary" ones. So I was working out my own "take" on it. When Lin Carter died and I got "The Life of Eibon" chapbook I thought to myself, "some fool is going to try and finish Carter's scheme for writing a Book of Eibon, and if some fool is going to do it, that fool might as well be me!" So that's what I did. I contacted E.P.Berglund, who was a great help making further contacts. I sent what Eibonic stories I'd written to Bob Price when I heard he planned a Book of Eibon and he liked them enough to publish them. While waiting for that to see print, I also published several unconnected Cthulhu Mythos stories as well.

I've not had a lot published as Role Playing stuff (some uncredited work on the Conan RPG, the odd fanzine piece), but I've written a fair few adventures over the years and been a Keeper for 28 years now. My players have tried most things at one time or another.

Eibon wrote:I am and Englishman in his Forties, who's day job is working with computers, but who by night is a mild-mannered Weird fiction writer and illustrator. I discovered Howard, Lovecraft and Smith, in that order, from the late 70s to the mid 80s as I got into Role Playing Games. By the Mid-Eighties I was contributing art to British fanzines (Dagon, Descending Darkness, Cerebratron) and almost got my first publish fiction then (but not quite). I did a lot of processing the Cthulhu Mythos -- writing glossaries, lists and book fragments -- because if you where a Hindu, you had texts you could find out what the mythology was about, but for Cthulhu there was no "primary" text, only "secondary" ones. So I was working out my own "take" on it. When Lin Carter died and I got "The Life of Eibon" chapbook I thought to myself, "some fool is going to try and finish Carter's scheme for writing a Book of Eibon, and if some fool is going to do it, that fool might as well be me!" So that's what I did. I contacted E.P.Berglund, who was a great help making further contacts. I sent what Eibonic stories I'd written to Bob Price when I heard he planned a Book of Eibon and he liked them enough to publish them. While waiting for that to see print, I also published several unconnected Cthulhu Mythos stories as well.

I've not had a lot published as Role Playing stuff (some uncredited work on the Conan RPG, the odd fanzine piece), but I've written a fair few adventures over the years and been a Keeper for 28 years now. My players have tried most things at one time or another.

KeeperMurph wrote:Ditto what Dan said! I would love to see some more of your work! And welcome to the community.

Keeper Jon wrote:Welcome, honored scholar. If you could PM me some links to your work, I'd love to check it out. Welcome; have fun!

Eibon wrote:

Keeper Jon wrote:Welcome, honored scholar. If you could PM me some links to your work, I'd love to check it out. Welcome; have fun!

I don't seem to be able to PM at the moment, and as the stuffs on the web anyway, I'll list a few stories here:

The Fear of Liqoimkh http://www.eldritchdark.com/tributes/sh ... f-liqoimkh
The Masters of Fear http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nights ... 4fic01.htm
The Return of Rhan-Tegoth http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nights ... s7fic3.htm
A Brief Biography of Abdul Alhazred by Henry Armitage http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nights ... ns4nf1.htm

Eibon wrote:

Keeper Jon wrote:Welcome, honored scholar. If you could PM me some links to your work, I'd love to check it out. Welcome; have fun!

I don't seem to be able to PM at the moment, and as the stuffs on the web anyway, I'll list a few stories here:

The Fear of Liqoimkh http://www.eldritchdark.com/tributes/sh ... f-liqoimkh
The Masters of Fear http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nights ... 4fic01.htm
The Return of Rhan-Tegoth http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nights ... s7fic3.htm
A Brief Biography of Abdul Alhazred by Henry Armitage http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nights ... ns4nf1.htm

Nvision wrote:Hey folks,

I'm Ian, from the frozen wastes of Canada, where every day is spent fleeing from herds of Gnoph-keh and making blood sacrifices to appease Ithaqua. I'm an illustrator by trade, though I've spent most of the past decade primarily creating pixel art and animation for games. A few years ago I got back into roleplaying, after finally finding a group playing Call of Cthulhu, and it's quickly come to dominate my time. I now run a fairly regular game here, and try to make as much cool accompanying artwork for my players as I can. My goal is to put together a decent body of related work to hopefully make some connections and produce materials for the game itself. I've been getting a fair bit of pen & paper RPG work thus far, including a few illustrations for an independent CoC adventure (to be released in the near future), so I'm staying optimistic!

Thanks to the crew here for making such a great podcast and providing another venue for those of us who love this game!