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Steve Hatherley

Steve first published Tales of Terror as a small-press A5 booklet in 1990. Since then he has edited two more volumes (both published by Pagan Publishing) and maintains this website.

Steve has also had scenarios and articles published in:

• The Stars are Right
• Fearful Passages
• The Golden Dawn
• The Unspeakable Oath
• Various games magazines and fanzines

He lives in Yorkshire, England.

Steve's Tales of Terror

Steve has written these Tales of Terror:

• Band of Gold
• The Black Book of the East
• The Carpet
• The Dee Signet
• Dinosaur Experiment 
• The Disappearance
• Dreamfires
• Grim Portrait
• Enchanted Wood
• Forked Tongues
• Fungus
• The Ghost of Heddon Manor
• Ghostwatch
• Harsh Words
• The Hatching Rocks
• Headaches
• The Helmsdon Monster
• The Island
• The Manacles
• The Midlock Dragons
• The Old Church
• The Old Cottage
• The Old Straight Track
• An Outbreak of Cancer
• Peverill Manor
• The Plated Skull
• The Ripper
• Scarlet Fever
• The Second Circle
• Seven Woodcut Blocks
• Short Story
• The Sinne Eater
• Snails
• Snuff
• The Spider Man
• Stones of Doom
• The Tattoo
• Tropical Death
• Unnatural Behaviour
• Virus
• A Wolf at the Door
• The Writing on the Wall

Steve's illustrations

Steve has provided all uncredit artwork for Tales of Terror. If you can't see a credit - then it's by Steve.

Steve's Links

• Great Murder Mystery Games - get your grandmother role-playing with these freeform-style murder mystery party games.
• My Lower Back Pain - I've got a bad back and this is what I'm doing about it.
• Freeform Games - more freeform style murder mystery parties. This time I'm a partner.

Call of Cthulhu scenarios and articles by Steve

Here are some of Steve's scenarios for Call of Cthulhu.

• Devil's Pool - Devil's Pool began life as The Lake of Mist, a short adventure that was published in Adventurer magazine. After Pagan Publishing's The Golden Dawn came out, I reworked it substantially as an encounter for that. (I have a fondness for adventures that link together.)
• Doomhunt - an unpublished campaign framework for The Stars Are Right!
• Fear of Falling - A short scenario published in The Unspeakable Oath #9.
• (The Original) Fear of Falling - Fear of Falling was originally submitted to Chaosium for their Fearful Passages book. It was rejected, and then I reworked it for The Unspeakable Oath. I'm actually rather pleased that it was rejected, as the reworked version is much better. This, however, is the version I submitted (and this is the first time it's seen light since then).
• The Shadow over Sidmouth - my first published adventure for Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow over Sidmouth (a tongue-in-cheek monster hunt) was co-written with Rob Davey and appeared in issue 10 of Dagon.

And here are some of his articles.

• Kick Off: Starting Cthulhu - originally published in Games Master International in May 1991. This is an article about scenario and campaign hooks. ("Hooks" would have been a much better title for it, but that's hindsight for you.)

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