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I come knocking at your door You don’t love me anymore But I just can’t give up ‘Cause I don’t know what to do about it.

Tune into chthonic clamour, subterranean shrieks, and abyssal ambience, as writer Stu Horvath channels hypogean imaginaries from ancient religious writings to the most contemporary of indie roleplaying games in Down, Down, Down... forthcoming from Strange Attractor Press this Winter. Surveying the dungeon, the cavern, and the dimly lit grotto as spaces of play and projection, Down, Down, Down is both a work of literary analysis and pop-cultural criticism. Richly researched and edited, this unique anthology assembles an encyclopaedia of texts intended to furnish the imaginations of both the game master and general reader alike. Stu is the author of the phenomenal Monsters, Aliens & Holes In the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership, MIT Press, 2023, and the omniscient brain-in-a-jar behind one of our favourite online archives, the inhumanly enormous Vintage RPG. Wraparound cover art (yet to be fully revealed) by the always eldritch Shoggoth Kinetics aka Lucas Korte (whose work you may have seen gracing the cover of the Shadowdark TTRPG).

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2006

Japanese movie poster for 'Escape From New York', 1981

La Chinoise (1967), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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Happy Pride, bite a transphobe today 💙

My dog agrees

Pierrot le Fou (1965), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

view of tokyo from st luke’s tower

by Richard Anuszkiewicz