Steven Kaye

Occasional TTRPG author, and hopefully horror fiction author

A Brief Explanation

I first discovered H.P.Lovecraft through the Del Rey paperbacks with covers by Michael Whelan, age twelve or so.I first played Call of Cthulhu in college and fell in love.While my tastes in both fiction and tabletop roleplaying games are broader, cosmic horror and Lovecraftian RPGs have always remained constants.

Thanks

To the late E.P. Berglund for seeing something valuable in the alt.horror.cthulhu ramblings of a youngish idiot.To Adam Crossingham for my first paid writing credit.To Dan Harms and Steven Marc Harris for their friendship and insights and for pushing me into writing TTRPG materials despite myself.To Donovan Loucks for his friendship and hospitality, and for a memorable expedition through Lovecraftian New England. Even if he did nearly send me over a cliff and tried to ditch me in Peabody.To Bryan Alexander, Lee Graham, and Sherry Dusza for their continuing friendship and support.To Laurel Halbany for her friendship and pushing me to keep trying to write fiction, and for the gaming since she was "Fish Lady" (not that kind!) in a friend's Call of Cthulhu game in college.To Vanessa Veselka and Joseph Nasisse for their Litreactor writing workshops.

TTRPG Publications

  • "The Mythos Gazetteer of the British Isles," The Black Seal Issue 1 Volume 1, Winter 2001/2002 (research assistance)

  • "The Library of Averoigne," Worlds of Cthulhu #2, February 2005 (additional material)

  • "The Worship of Tsathoggua Through the Centuries," Worlds of Cthulhu #6, 2009 (co-author)

  • "The Worship of Atlach-Nacha," The Unspeakable Oath Issue 25, July 2018 (co-author)

  • "Order of the Bloated Woman," Cthulhu by Arclight (pending)

Other Works

"The Cthulhu Mythos," (review of August Derleth's collection), Nightscapes #9, September 1998, http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS09/ns9rev.htm
Notes Towards A Study of the 'Iod Mythos," Nightscapes #12, December 1999, http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS12/ns12nf01.htm
"Made in Goatswood," (review), Nightscapes #12, December 1999 http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS12/ns12reva.htm#goatswood
"Singer of Strange Songs," (review), Nightscapes #12, December 1999 http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS12/ns12reva.htm#singers
"Singers of Strange Songs," (review), Nightscapes #12, December 1999 http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS12/ns12reva.htm#singers
"New Mythos Legends," (review), Nightscapes #12, December 1999 http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/nightscapes/NS12/ns12reva.htm#legends

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