Portfolio: Tales of the Crescent City

Tales of the Crescent City is the second book from Golden Goblin Press. It’s a collection of Call of Cthulhu scenarios set in New Orleans … and I have the great good fortune to be designing the handouts/props for the book. Yay!

Here’s the designs I contributed to this book. Click on any image to get a larger version.

Five Lights

Handout 1: Blood Stained and Crumpled Note

Handout 2: Vintage photograph of insignia sketched onto a wall with chalk

Handout 3: Entries from a hand-written journal

Asylum: Return of the Yellow Sign

Handout 1: Newspaper Article

Handout 2: Newspaper Article

Tell Me, Have You Seen The Yellow Sign?

Handout 1: Extracts from a notebook

Song and Dance

Handout 1: Newspaper clipping with two articles

Handout 2: Hand-written note with Orchid insignia

The Quickening Spiral

Handout 1: A typed letter to the Investigators

Handout 2: Newspaper Article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1927

Handout 3: Business Card for a Hotel

Handout 4: Newspaper Article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1927

Handout 5: Newspaper Article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1927

Handout 6A: A badly-damaged page, torn from a French mythos tome [most of the page is supposed to be illegible]

Handout 6B: Investigator’s notes recording a translation of the above

Needles

Handout 1: A Calling Card

Handout 2: A Scrap of Paper

Handout 3: Newspaper Article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1924

Handout 4: An investigator sketch of some hieroglyphs

Handout 5: A page from an Egyptology textbook

Handout 6A: An old hand-written letter, in French

Handout 6B: The Investigators’ translation of the hand-written letter (above)

Bloodlines

Handout 1: A hand-written letter

Handout 2: An ornately-rendered family tree

Handout 3A: A page from a 1740s journal in French

Handout 3B: The Investigators’ translation of the page from the nun’s journal (above)

Handout 4: Extracts from three hand-written letters dating from ~1860s