A pen-and-paper roleplaying game designed by Joshua Fox and Becky Annison. This isn't your standard RPG, where players throw dice to defeat monsters and steal all the gold in the dungeon. There are no dice. There's no GM. It's a storytelling game, a subgenre of RPGs that's been on the rise in recent years. They're often less reliant on the random roll of the dice and more focused on collaboratively building a cohesive, satisfying story. 

And this game has some significant differences from its most obvious inspiration, the classic horror RPG "Call of Cthulhu." Players are encouraged not to use familiar foes from the Cthulhu Mythos -- no deep ones, no mi-go, no King in Yellow, no Nyarlathotep, not even Cthulhu itself. The name of the game is "Lovecraftesque," not "Slavishly Recreating Lovecraft's Works," after all. This allows the players to be surprised by the terrors they conjure up themselves, rather than confronting the same monsters every player has grown…

See, I had this nightmare last night. And it was a real doozy because it was a Sleep Paralysis nightmare. Those aren't the normal ones where you get chased by a monster or something. Oh no. If only it were that easy you could just wake up.

See, in a sleep-paralysis nightmare you're already half-awake. You can sort of see the real world, but you have no idea what's going on, like in a dream...only this nightmare has something most don't.

Because there's someone, or some thing, in…

In publishing, the quality of an academic journal is often gauged by how exclusive it is. Thus the higher the rejection rate of that journal (meaning, the more submitted papers it snootily declines to publish as falling below its lofty standards), the better of a journal it must be. It thusly follows that the finest journal in the world is the Journal of Universal Rejection, which rejects every single paper submitted to it, and so, is…