Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald: Newt’s Wand Notice Scrap

As seen very briefly in the film, and also in this promo still:

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Newt has a small scrap from the New York Ghost newspaper stuck to the inside of his suitcase:

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Batman (1989): Jack’s Playing Cards

During the film, Jack Napier plays with a deck of cards:

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Beyond “From Beyond” – an RPG Scenario Sketch

…In reply to my question Tillinghast mumbled that this permanent glow was not electrical in any sense that I could understand… – H. P. Lovecraft, “From Beyond,” 1920.

“Permanent”? Hmm…

“–she turned on the lights downstairs after I had warned her not to, and the wires picked up sympathetic vibrations.”

I would argue that the ‘permanent’ glow and the ‘sympathetic vibrations’ in the electrical wiring of the house are hooks upon which one could hang a sequel scenario: Let us suppose (for the purposes of fun) that Crawford’s machine isn’t just permanently ‘charged,’ but the entire house is in fact now a permanent tear in the fabric of reality:

  1. That once activated (perhaps in its improved, final state), the machine can somehow function without current, (though perhaps at a lower level of effect). Like using an electro-magnet to create a permanent magnet.
  2. That the wiring in the house, once accidentally tuned to the vibrations of the improved machine, could also create a ‘permanent’, low-level effect.

All this being said, and since these events take place in November of 1920 (early in the Golden Age), perhaps one could plot a return to “the ancient, lonely house set back from Benevolent Street.”

Crawford is dead, so the house could pass to his distant relation (perhaps a PC or NPC), or be taken by the city. Either could then experience strange goings-on and call for some investigation. I’d really like to give the PCs the red herring of a ‘traditional’ haunted house set-up, but then have them discover (perhaps through library use or interviewing neighbors) this is the old Tillinghast place, where the alleged hypnotism murders took place years ago, etc.

Maybe the ‘ghosts’ only appear when the lights are on? Perhaps the old wiring is being brought up to code, or the voltage has recently changed (or will change), increasing the effect?

“Parts of Boston, Massachusetts along Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue still used 110 volts DC in the 1960s…” –Wikipedia

Perhaps, with these electrical infrastructure changes, the ‘Tillinghast effect’ could bleed  out from the house, along the power grid, and affect the entire city?

Puerto Rico Relief via Lovecraft Raffle

Help raise money for the Hispanic Federation’s UNIDOS Puerto Rico hurricane relief program by buying a raffle ticket from the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and get a chance to win a rare Cthulhu idol:

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The Hounds of Tindalos: Reconstructed Timeline of Events

This is my attempt at a chronological list of events mentioned in Frank Belknap Long’s short story, “The Hounds of Tindalos.” I am including the events of the ‘present’ only – not those mentioned as being in the distant past.

Here be spoilers:

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