Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The latest Ephemera: karloff-shelf.blogspot.com/2026/09/crim...karloff-shelf.blogspot.comCrime Scene (Night's Black Agents)Things are progressing but I'm still not 100%. In Cthulhu style games, no matter the system, there's nearly always an element of investigat... 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Friday! Flappers got soaked in a downpour yesterday so it's drying out at home. Its replacement: Larry Nixon's See Canada Next. Unlike his other efforts this one, so far, hasn't got much unintended war journalism, though you do get glimpses here and there of clouds on the horizon 010
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Tuesday! Starting the week with some history. I'm a roaring twenties nut, so this was an easy choice. I'm already familiar with the period and data but Zeitz' interpretation is interesting! 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The latest Ephemera: karloff-shelf.blogspot.com/2026/09/bloc...karloff-shelf.blogspot.comBlocks (NBA, Dracula Dossier)Without wishing to post private business, things at my end got very complicated this week. Still processing. This will be a short post. From... 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Monday! Slowly working through the back catalogue. Picked this up in London. de Maupassant is one of those authors I will happily pick up regardless, because I know whatever he's writing, I want to read. It's often strong stuff and this is no exception. 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The latest Ephemera: karloff-shelf.blogspot.com/2026/09/zero...karloff-shelf.blogspot.comZero Company and Villainy (RPG All)Zero Company final trailer I've never been a huge Star Wars fan. Saw the original when it came out, loved the first three films, and afte... 001
Reposted by Adam GJacob Burgess @jacobburgess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Well, here I sit on a Shinkansen, ready to make a post that my latest TTRPG article and video on Building Character: Creating Roles is live and is good and please check out my Patreon, but I can't say anything better than Brawl already did before I even woke up.❤️ Patreon.com/JacobBurgess 0364
Reposted by Adam GThin King Productions @thinkingproductions.com · 11/09/2026Bookhounds of London, up from the vaults! 1. Video delve into the Limited Edition. 2. Podcast special w/interviews. 3. Gruesome Goatskin of Gallows Corner, binaural Actual Play recorded in the world's oldest antiquarian bookshop. 4. BOOKMEN. VR video about Sotheran's. www.patreon.com/ThinKingProd...patreon.comBookhounds of London & The Gruesome Goatskin of Gallows Corner | Thin King ProductionsAnother release from the vaults. The Bookhounds of London supplement for the Trail of Cthulhu roleplaying game remains a firm favourite in t 011
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Friday! Having consumed Samurai Detectives it's off to France for a collection of peculiar narratives. The British Library always puts together a good charcuterie, and this is no exception. 010
Reposted by Adam GAlex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 2415741126
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Tuesday! Monday's replacement. About halfway through. Mifuyu is slowly falling in love (lust?) with Daijiro, something the author's flagged since v1. A daughter has been kidnapped, to force a doctor can prepare a poison! What to do? 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Friday! Got this yesterday and couldn't wait to jump in. I' ve admired Ikenami-san's work since I first picked it up in translation last year, when I was in London. Already tore through Mitsuke on the Tokaido Highway and look forward to the rest! 010
Reposted by Adam GDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Full piece (£) here samf.substack.com/p/madmen-and...samf.substack.comMadmen and RealistsUS foreign policy under Trump and beyond 1113
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Monday! Diving back into this one, which I pick up and put down semi-regularly. Satire, yes, but rarely comedic. I find myself banging heads with the text, which is never a good sign. But perhaps Crotchet Castle will be different ... 010
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The latest Ephemera: karloff-shelf.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...karloff-shelf.blogspot.comThe Wolf's Head (Night's Black Agents)Money Heist trailer Antena 3 This week’s post is loosely based on this Guardian news article about museum robberies and a recent EUROPOL re... 010
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Thursday! Still fighting my way through this. The current short (ha!) story is Verschoyle's House, an English Civil War tale that took over 100 pages to get the hero to confront and kill the villain, and there's still 40-odd pages to go. Vincent O'Sullivan knows history but not pacing! 000
Reposted by Adam GLoadingReadyRun @loadingreadyrun.com · 24/08/2026We're kicking off the 2026 LoadingReadyRun Sub-A-Thon at 12:00PM Pacific TODAY! That's just 105 minutes from the time of this post! GET HYPE! www.twitch.tv/loadingready... or www.youtube.com/loadingready... 27629
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Listening to a political vid and a thought occurs: will the phrase 'Thank you for your attention to this matter' still be used in business communications? Say, after about five years more/less? My bet is, no. 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Monday! The weekend was one long thunder and lightning storm and I'm ready for a change of weather. This one's not really doing it for me. Not sure why; the topic's in my wheelhouse, but the execution ... I love backstory as much as the next history nut, but these things beat you to death with it 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Ephemera: karloff-shelf.blogspot.com/2026/08/forg...karloff-shelf.blogspot.comForgotten London - also Crash! Boom! Pow!You should have seen the lightning last night. One of the consequences of that dazzling display is we have no internet so I have no idea wh... 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Thursday! Finishing off the book on which Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes is based, moving on to the next in the pile. This is one of those times when the film is better than the book, by far. The book's OK, but the film has a better sense of pace and some brilliant work at the climax. 000
Reposted by Adam GAdrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Going to weigh in here with some personal stuff. My son is diagnosed autistic. It made a world of difference because his school had to make accommodations that allowed him to actually cope and learn there, rather than be categorised as "naughty" in an escalating round of attempted control that 352202395
Reposted by Adam GDr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I have one friend whose birthday request every year is pineapple upside down cake, so here we are.🍍🍒 2282553115
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Monday! A change of pace. Nixon published this in 1940; it's a glimpse of a world long vanished. 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The latest Ephemera: karloff-shelf.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-lo...karloff-shelf.blogspot.comA Long Walk In Lovecraft Country (RPG All)Jesus, Larry. The last time I mentioned Larry Nixon it was because I'd picked up the saddest book, Vagabond Voyaging. That got me on a bit... 000
Reposted by Adam GToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 14/08/2026First look at the Criterion Collection cover of ‘KPop Demon Hunters.’ Out in November. 191893477
Reposted by Adam GPelgrane Press @pelgranepress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Trust at the table grows through clear stakes, fair rulings, and players who know the game will support their choices. Adam Gauntlett looks at how trust shapes risk and tension. bit.ly/4g9IDJ0 061
Reposted by Adam GJames Takahashi @jtvoiceover.com · 14/08/2026And the inner material is just as gorgeous and robust! Looks like it was drawn by the movie's art director Ami Thompson. 022
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Friday! Having finished London I'm moving on to something I picked up at the British Library, an unpublished E.R.C. Lorac. After a Hunt Ball, as merrymakers wend their way home, a body is discovered in the roadway. Run over? Deliberately placed? What connection has it with two previous bodies? 010
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Halfway through the week and I've read as far as the East End, with its mazes of butchers, poulterers and odds-and-ends shops. This is a surprisingly difficult read, because Fletcher keeps jumping from point to point like a hound chasing three hares. Fun stuff, mind. 100
Reposted by Adam GMariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Remembering Robin Williams on the anniversary of his passing. His humor, kindness, and incredible talent continue to touch our hearts and inspire us every day. (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) 339103531854
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 11/08/2026'Bourdain never understood his own propensity for self-sabotage, as well as other-people-sabotage.' Does anyone? www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...theguardian.comThe myth of Anthony Bourdain: how the bad boy chef became a hero to boozehounds and bulliesThe author of Kitchen Confidential has inspired a new movie, Tony, about his days as a dishwasher. But do today’s chefs still admire his self-sabotaging rock’n’roll spirit – or have they outgrown it? 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Monday! Getting ready for work. Still delving into a vanished London 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The latest Ephemera: Making Hounds Modern. Hello Fred! karloff-shelf.blogspot.com/2026/08/maki...karloff-shelf.blogspot.comMaking Hounds Modern (Bookhounds of London)I know you’re away from your excellent blog at the moment for personal reasons, but when you’re back (not sure if you take suggestions) I’d ... 100
Reposted by Adam GSolaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Under a week to go until PREACHING TO THE CHOIR, the latest instalment in @aptshadow.bsky.social 's TERRIBLE WORLDS novellas, hits the shelves, & this time...it's illustrated! Tchaikovsky's move into horror features suitably spooky internal artwork from @valdevia.art ! Preorder geni.us/preachtc 0153
Reposted by Adam GTerracotta Distribution @terracottadist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Re-issued in October! An epic tale of a woman's life from childhood to her last days living as a tramp. Stars Miki Nakatani, the film has been described as AMELIE on speed Preorder #terracottastore Shop.terracottadistribution.com #japanesefilm #japanesecinema #japanesemovie #japaneseactress 144
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Gearing up to go to work and reminding myself of a forgotten London 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Big thank you to The Book Binder, London, for the fantastic job they did on this badly damaged book 100
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 01/08/2026As is becoming traditional my last night in the UK features Old Mout. 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This is why Charing Cross is one of my favorite places 010
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Put the Grimaldi aside briefly to take a look at this, which arrived in the post yesterday. Larry Nixon's not exactly world-beating but that's not the point; he describes an America that has long vanished. CoC Keepers looking for inspiration should check him out, if you can 000
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 15/07/2026While I don’t give a stuff about footie, never mind the Cup … go England! 1-0 at time of posting 200
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Monday! I started reading Grimaldi's memoirs when I was in the UK and stopped for a bit because I had other things, but my life, Grimaldi had a remarkable childhood. Currently at the age of 16 when he finds his true love and gets his house burgled. If that's what happens at 16 ... 000
Reposted by Adam GContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I’ll just snuggle in 😊 944704549
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Read and done. Interesting idea! I can see what he was shooting for; jury's out as to whether it hit the bull. 010
Adam G @karloff0734.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Dinner at Achilles, St George's. Food was great, company fantastic! 100
