The Call of Cthulhu Investigator’s Handbook: A Core Gamebook for Players (Chaosium Publication 23136)

Welcome to the Call of Cthulhu Investigator’s Handbook!
Call of Cthulhu is a game ƒull of secrets, mysteries, and horror. Playing the role of a steadfast investigator, you will
travel to strange and dangerous places, uncover foul plots, and stand against the terrors of the night. You will encounter sanity-blasting entities, monsters, and insane cultists. Within strange and forgotten tomes of lore you will find secrets that man was not meant to know.
You and your companions may very well decide the fate of the world…
Call of Cthulhu is a horror roleplaying game based on the writings of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Lovecraft penned a tremendous body of work during the 1920s and 1930s concerning both horrors from beyond and from within.
Following his death in 1937, Lovecraft’s stories of cosmic horror have grown in reputation and stature, and today he
is recognized as a major American horror story writer of the twentieth century, influencing numerous authors, film directors, and amassing a huge following of devoted fans.
Indeed Lovecraft himself could now be considered a cult figure in his own right. Lovecraft’s fiction ranges from science fiction to gothic horror and into nihilistic cosmic terror— perfect material on which to base a roleplaying game.
Lovecraft’s most famous invention has become known as the Cthulhu Mythos, a series of stories sharing common  plot elements such as certain mythical books of arcane lore and alien godlike entities. The Cthulhu Mythos fired the
imagination of other authors, mostly protégés and friends of Lovecraft, and soon they were adding to this complex
mythology, further advancing its concepts and constituent parts. Today "Cthulhu" stories are still being written (and filmed) by the heirs to Lovecraft’s literary legacy.
Do not be concerned if you’ve never read one of Lovecraft’s stories or don't know anything about the Cthulhu Mythos; such information will unfold during the game. A lot of the fun is to be found in discovering secrets…