If you think Tales of Terror is pretty cool, just think how much better it would be if it included a Tale of your own!
Just email me a Tale of Terror of your own devising and if I like it I'll add it to these pages.
Before submitting, there are two rules.
First, please review the submission guidelines. You can see them here.
Second, please use the form below to submit your Tale of Terror to me.
When using the form, please use the following template and don't use typographical quotes or apostrophes, ie ' instead of ‘ and ’. (This happens if you use a word processor to write your Tale of Terror and then paste the text into the form. Unfortunately the form doesn't understand the fancy fonts and effects.)
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Introduction paragraph 1
Introduction paragraph 2 (and so on - leave a
blank line between each paragraph and the next).
[Possibilities]
1 Option 1 text.
Paragraph 2 of option 1. (And so on - again,
leave a blank line between each paragraph and the next.)
2 Option 2 text
Paragraph 2 of option 2.
3 Option 3 text.
Paragraph 2 of option 3.
Copyright (c) 200xx Your Name
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About the author: (This is optional. If you want to include a
link to your website, feel free.)
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(Add this bit if your tale is based around Call of Cthulhu. If you've
used a different roleplaying game, please amend this to suit.)
This tale has been written for Call of Cthulhu, the game of roleplaying
in the worlds of HP Lovecraft. Call of Cthulhu is © Chaosium, Inc.
Call of Cthulhu is a trademark of Chaosium, Inc. None of the materials
found herein are intended as challenges to the trademarks and/or
copyrights of Chaosium, Inc.
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