A Favour For The King – Chapter Three Thursday, May 14, 1925 – Penobscot River, Maine: About 12 miles upstream from Bangor on the Penobscot River. McGee, Cherry and MacNifey decided to go back for the injured lumberjack, recently one of four of the Clenton brothers but now the only one. What the hell were…
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The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Three
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Three Sunday 29th March 1925 – Halifax, Nova Scotia: 22:30pm – On board The Beauregarde Halifax, we sit aboard Berkeley’s fishing sloop “The Beauregard”, trying to run Pythagoras over all the angles of this case, and waiting for first light before we set sail for Sable Island. Suddenly, there’s…
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Two
The Fixer From Boston – Chapter Two Sunday 29th March 1925 – Halifax, Nova Scotia: 16:00pm – Terminus Hotel The boys head outside our Hotel, in Halifax, and look to follow Monsieur Sasquatch’s trail through the spring snow, but despite the size of the guy’s gunboats, they quickly lose the scent. Instead we take a cup…
53: The Investigators, the Pharaoh, His Queen and Her Doctor
8th October 1945, Ljubljana, Slovenia, People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia US Military Investigators’ Report by Special Agent XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX Following up on a tip by one of the partisan resistance fighters our military investigators located a small apartment in downtown Ljubljana. Partially destroyed by fire (cause unknown) we had no difficulty entering. The two rooms within…
52: The Pyramid of Menkaure, A Voice From Beyond
Sprech, Broadmoor, Gardener and all of the investigators are at the Pyramid of Menkaure. Entering the tunnel first are Gardener and Sprech because they know the way. Who knows what dangers lie ahead? Nerves are frayed. Everyone is jumpy. Gardener: “Come on, hurry up!” The tunnel beneath the Pyramid of Menkaure takes a turn. Gardener:…
51: The Great Egyptian Bake Off
Crimson burn’d the star of sadness As behind the beams I peer’d; All was woe that seem’d but gladness Ere my gaze with truth was sear’d; Sarcophagus, mir’d with madness, Thro’ the fever’d flick’ring leer’d. Now I know the fiendish fable That the golden glitter bore; Now I shun the spangled sable That I watch’d…
50: Two Go Camping in The Desert
Leaving the hotel, the investigators head back to the Dark Mistress on the Nile. The boat no longer has a power source and is immobile but safer out on the water from attack. The assumption is that the cultists in Luna Park have been entirely wiped out. But this is not a certainty. At least…
49: Nyarlathotep’s Helter-Skelter
“Look out Helter-skelter, helter-skelter Helter-skelter. Look out ’cause here she comes. When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride…” (Excerpt “Helter-skelter” The Beatles, 22 November 1968) “I was old when the Pharaohs first mounted The jewel-deck’d…
48: Welcome to Luna Park
Trixie’s Secret Diary: It’s late Friday night and we are just sooo pooped. We return to our boat, the Dark Mistress, which has been ransacked – numerous items stolen by two westerners – Aussies. Never trust ‘em, honey! We have Hamza, an acolyte of the Black Pharaoh who tells us about a ritual taking place…
47: Mad Dogs and Investigators
Black monstrous bridges across oily rivers, Cobwebs of cable by nameless Cthulhu spun; Catacomb deeps whose dank chaos delivers Streams of live foetor, that rots in the sun. Colour and splendour, disease and decaying, Shrieking and ringing and scrambling insane, Rabbles exotic to stranger-gods praying, Jumbles of odour that stifle the brain. (Adapted excerpt “The Cats”…
46: Curiosity Kills the Mummified Cat
USAF XXX-XXXXX X-XX Nevada 1938 / INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION / SUBJ. WFF / OMAR SHAKTI US SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS OPERATIONAL OFFICER (USSAOO): “You’d stopped the crazy ritual. They were finished. Why didn’t you leave Omar Shakti and just get the hell out of Egypt?” FOCK: “For a monkey in a uniform that’s the most pertinent question you’ve asked me all…
45: Unwelcome Guests
The Assault On Omar Shakti’s House Take out Omar Shakti? After all that the investigators have faced and achieved this would appear a comparatively simple task. Simple. Simple? The word rings of treacherous deadly complacency. The rancid heat of a day’s hustle and bustle, as the desperate inhabitants of a sprawling metropolis fight to survive,…
33: Old Bundari’s Lizard
Nairobi, Kenya, Africa: 14:28: PM: Gaidar doesn’t want to go anywhere near Egypt. He has snapped and doesn’t want to deal with the harsh realities of the world. We are preparing to go up country to the Mountain of the Black Wind. We are certain that M’Weru and Miss Hypatia Masters are there. Hypatia Masters…
26: Gray Dragon Island’s Secrets
China, Gray Dragon Island: 05:13 AM: Penhew’s lab. Gaidar and Wes in the room. Wesley ascertains that there is a shell plus explosive device with warhead that he can’t quite work out how it works but it is extraordinarily dangerous. Right now. The rocket is armed and it is collapsing into the magma….! Joe and…
19: Planning & Preparation
London, England: 08:00 AM: Despite all our careful packaging, disguising as machine parts and telescopic equipment the dismantled weaponry is mostly found. Only with a huge bribe are we able to bring it into the USA. The dismantled machines guns and the flamethrower were hard to spot and got through but the Trench Guns, B.A.Rs…