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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My entire Arkham collection was exposed to mold due to flooding. 3rd edition was destroyed and I lost Guardians of the Abyss. Otherwise everything "lived", in large part thanks to the sacrifice of many dozens of sleeves.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This way I'm morally obligated to get the campaign started... ...sarcasm aside, this thing lived up to the hype.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It is very much a book 1 in a series, so there is a ton of world-building and introductions, but it is well executed. Lots of engaging characters and, at times, some ludicrous comedy.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If anyone is looking for a mythos read I recommend checking out Discovery by @jajminton.bsky.social. It's a modern 90s telling of what happens when humanity notices Cthulhu sleeping beneath the waves.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Japanese Gothic was a solid read. It didn't blow me away but it is the first time I've pondered the question, when does a ghost story become a time travel story?

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"Peter Bellwood, there's mischief afoot." If you haven't put a Tom Ryan book into your life, I recommend you fix that. His timing / pacing is unreal and filled with living characters that surpass niche stereotypes in a mystery.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

If you enjoy the Arkham Files fiction and are interested in a novella that deals with racism and the Klan in a supernatural mythos adjacent way I strongly recommend taking a few hours to read Ring Shout by P. Djèlì Clark. Come for an awesome sword but stay for the take on hatred.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Thank you Christopher and Adam, if this is the end of SOTM then you've made something truly special. Opening Disparation tonight was a lovely trip through the hundreds of hours I've spent listening to you lie.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"It was like trying to move a giant sack of soup and sticks." Credit to Blake Crouch, that is the most jacked up description of moving a corpse I've ever come across 💀

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Home sick, cleared my last TBR book yesterday, the library is closed due to snow, and the next @aconytebooks.bsky.social release hasn't been set up for previews yet. Bah!

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Today in @arkhamhorror.bsky.social's history... 1\12\1926 – The Arkham Advertiser runs an article about the Ruggles Rare Book Room dedication that occurred on the 11th.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It's been months since I originally read the core so I can't recall specifically but I feel for any table that has to be concerned about that level of trust with their GM.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

He has a new one coming out this year!

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Whomever posted something about "The Library of Mount Char" on here in the last could of weeks, THANK YOU! That was a fantastic read.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Today in @arkhamhorror.bsky.social's history... 1/11/1926 – Alonzo Ruggles, his wife Nina, and Abigail Foreman take part in the dedication of the Ruggles Rare Book Room at the Orne Library.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

For me, the calling for dice rolls option has been a difficult adjustment when running this system. You really aren't supposed to. You can flat out say there is information to be had, and then it is up to the player to choose to engage or not. I don't think you ever just say "give me an int CK".

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tumblesticks @tumblesticks.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

yay, rare new personal #art ! The Dunwich Legacy was the first Arkham Horror TCG campaign my husband & I played, and while we’ve played many, many other campaigns in the years since then, I’ve always wanted to draw a movie-style poster based on our first “real” game together (details in alt-text)

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A hand drawn 1920s style movie poster. Top text:
“Sebastien Moreau presents
THE DUNWICH LEGACY
A Thrilling Journey Beyond Time and Space”
Beneath are 6 figures which I’ll describe in the next images, standing in a sort of creeping fog.
The bottom text is my husband & my names starring as the lead characters, with the names of the ally characters underneath.

Close-up of the two player characters: In the front are William Yorrick and Sefina Rousseau, player investigators from Arkham Horror The Card Game.
William has longish red hair and a beard - not a common look for the 1920s, but it makes sense considering he’s an actor. He wears a Trenchcoat, and carries his trademark lantern and his “Cherished Keepsake” Mr. Pawterson. I decided to give him WWI style boots and pants, perhaps he’s a veteran? Or maybe he got them at an army surplus store? His shirt is a typical style for the 20s, complete with a detachable soft collar that saves on laundering costs.

Sefina is a Tahitian woman, wearing a matching dark green travel coat and cloche hat. She has unfashionably long, dark, curly hair-but like many women of the time who were reluctant to bob their hair-she’s styled it impeccably to fit current hat silhouettes. Her hat is decorated with artificial Tahitian gardenias, and her coat has Polynesian tapa cloth inspired embroidery. Her drop-waist pleated dress is a lighter green, and her leather shoes have the low flared heels typical of the period. Her clothes are clearly made especially for her, none of this new-fangled buying “off the rack” for Sefina! Pearls are a very popular accessory at this time, but in keeping with her theme I gave Sefina Tahitian black pearls. Lastly she has two paintbrushes in her pocket because she’s a forger artist, and she’s gesturing enthusiastically at a map she’s holding.

Close-up of two “ally” characters:
Leo De Luca is an ally that gives you an extra action in game. How does he manage this? In my opinion, by being rakishly charming! I’ve drawn him standing with his jacket slung over his shoulder, showing off his simple worker’s shirt and suspenders. He’s wearing a light brown hat, cuffed pants, and some gorgeous wingtip shoes that I imagine he’s super proud of. He has short, dark blonde hair (the official card art makes his hair colour hard to discern so I just picked), and he’s holding a lit, hand rolled cigarette.

The Arcane Initiate has bobbed red hair styled with finger waves, and is wearing a dark orange sweater vest over a long sleeved shirt and flowy skirt. Her card art has her wearing an outfit that really doesn’t look appropriate according to my research, so I gave her something that a student might typically wear while still looking a little bit like the original art. She looks very worried (after all, she gets placed with a Doom on her!), and is holding tightly a purple book with a glowing Mystic symbol on it.

Madame LaBranche is a stout older woman wearing a fancy steel blue housedress. I found that lot of photos of older women of this time show them wearing slightly out of date dresses; I guess it was hard for many to adapt to the new and shocking knee-high hems that all the kids were wearing. I chose a sort of compromise outfit for Madame that I found in a Montgomery Wards Schoffner’s catalog, because catalogs were all the rage back then! Her white hair is done up in a loose bun with finger wave styling, and she’s holding up a single silver coin while looking disdainfully at the viewer. (Her ally power is that she gives you a resource every turn if you have none). She wears white pearls and seems to be a Woman Of Means, even though in our games she always ends up being your weird landlady.

Behind her stands a tall man wearing a striped grey suit and a fedora. His back is towards the viewer, and his face is partially obscured. His bright leather red gloves stand out from the dark background. He is The Red Gloved Man and he declines to be described further.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

That was the only scenario I outright failed in an otherwise unblemished blind run of that campaign.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"I kind of want to slay the dragon" is a great wrap up of the series

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Why take the time to have spent literal months teeing up a status quo shift, in an ever green story, then put 1 of the 2 leads of that story in your new beginner friendly product roll out and make this the lore entry you choose to go with?

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Today in @arkhamhorror.bsky.social 's history... 1-2-1917: Dr.Yancy rejects Norman Wither’s paper regarding disappearing stars the astronomer claims to have witnessed and sends a letter to Norman asking him to reconsider his stance on the occurrence before his claims destroy his reputation.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I sat down tonight to finish one such article to find that it was pretty much complete already. Being that I am not a writer, I always have things I want to tweak so I spent maybe half an hour on adjustments, moved it to WordPress to start formatting it, and then realized I already published it.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Here is a first. I have a schedule I've built for my Arkham project that will have new work out bi-weekly through April if I can maintain it. To ease into that workload, the first several items are really just me sitting down and finishing articles that I've had in process for some time.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

You can learn more in @jmreynolds.bsky.social's entry in Secrets in Scarlet from @aconytebooks.bsky.social

aconytebooks.com

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This week in @arkhamhorror.bsky.social's history... Between 12/27/1924 and 12/31/1924: Trish Scarborough meets with the Crimson Cavalier, in Venice, in an attempt to convince the Red Coterie to work with Black Chamber.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Edge has quietly dropped a free RPG scenario for the holidays. It ties into the epic Terra Antarctica campaign and, once again, local morgue manager Ruth Turner is compromised.

edge-studio.net

Arkham Horror RPG - Edge Studio

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Are you an OG Arkham Horror LCG player and your OCD got itchy because your TDE & TIC campaigns weren't in a lovely box, because some sadist discontinued the Return To product line? You can pick up the discontinued rerelease, and pay the nerd tax, but I recommend this Etsy product.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Cthulhu: Private investigator's synopsis is worth the click through.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It's a huge reveal and the furthest we have seen into the Arkham Files chronology thus far.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

12/24/1939: Paul Kopp meets Zoe Samaras in Kingsport while unstuck in time. 12/24/1944: Agent Wendy Adams meets Paul Kopp, who is unstuck in time, in Kingsport. You can learn more about the chaos that is Paul Kopp's life in @rosemaryjones.bsky.social's Mask of Silver and The Bootleggers Dance.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

12/24/1929: “Ashcan” Pete gives Paul Kopp, who is unstuck in time, his leather jacket. 12/24/1933: Paul Kopp gives a destitute Preston Fairmont a dime. Daisy Walker then takes Preston in for the night. 12/24/1936: Jim Culver meets Paul Kopp, who is unstuck in time, in a Dunwich Graveyard.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

12/24/1917: Paul Kopp meets Leonard Pease in Innsmouth, while unstuck in time. 12/24/1924: Paul Kopp, while unstuck in time, is present for a meeting between Dr. William T. Maleson, Agent Tawny & Mandy Thompson as they experiment with time travel at M.U.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Time for my favorite... ...TODAY IN @arkhamhorror.bsky.social'S HISTORY... 12/24/1908: Paul Kopp meets Wilbur and Agatha Crane during once of their paranormal investigations, in Arkham, while he is while unstuck in time. 12/24/1913: Paul Kopp meets Beatrice Sharpe at M.U. while unstuck in time.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Duke's insights to how the team is moving forward on Chapter 2 are encouraging. I'm looking forward to the future of this version of my favorite IP & fully back the idea of FFG/Asmodee creating new Middle Aged Ones for their universe.

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Arkham Horror @arkhamhorror.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Arkham’s investigators strive to defend the world from chaos – discover Marion Tavares’ nightmare at sea, in this chapter of The Investigators of Arkham Horror. Written by @carrharr.bsky.social & narrated by Daniela Acitelli, read or listen now now: www.arkhamhorror.com/news/the-inv...

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Today in Arkham Horror jistory... 12/17/1925: The alternate reality version of an investigator from Alejandro Vega’s expedition journals about their prior selve's existence.

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crabinak.bsky.social @crabinak.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I've created a tool to help automate token drawing in the Arkham Horror Card Game, and you can check it out here. crabinak.github.io/ahcg-token-d...

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Credit to ArgonWolf, on Reddit, for pointing out that this would be a Saturday. For head-canon, I agree that this should be in 1918, so it falls on Friday the 13th, as sentencing rarely happens on a Saturday.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Today in @arkhamhorror.bsky.social's history... 12/13/1919: “Skids” is sentenced to 10 years in prison for bank robbery. ArgonWolf, on Reddit, pointed out that this would be a Saturday. For headcanon, I agree that this should be in 1918, so it falls on Friday the 13th.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I am a big Marvel fan, so I was super excited about Champions. AH & MC are 2 different styles of games, though, and as much as I appreciate what was happening mechanically in MC, I kept finding the last 10-20 minutes of the game to be a foregone conclusion and anticlimactic.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Ten years later my partner still talks about the train wreck that was my first attempt at showing her the game.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Some good thoughts on the RGP system. I personally enjoy it, and am committed to running it for the time being, but I also don't disagree with some of the points Lauri is making here.

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Arkham Historian @arkhamhistorian.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Another great entry in the missing investigator's backgrounds, this one featuring a great rendition of my favorite G.O.O. I'm holding out hope that in the coming weeks we'll get some lore focused on Sefina, the oldest of the investigators with no published lore thus far.

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