{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"335: Urban Fantasy and Call of Cthulhu, with Seth Skorkowsky","description":" Main Topic: Urban Fantasy and Call of Cthulhu Since the early nineties, urban fantasy has blended elements of horror and crime fiction with the fantastic to create something new. But how exactly does the genre work? What are some of our favourite examples of it? And how might all this shape our games of Call of Cthulhu? Our Guest Host We are delighted to have YouTuber, podcaster and author Seth Skorkowsky join us for this episode. Most of our listeners will know Seth from his ENnie-Award winning YouTube channel, as well as the Modern Mythos podcast, which he hosts with Jon Hook. Seth is also the author of many fine books, spanning urban fantasy, sword and sorcery, and horror. His main focus right now is his ongoing video diary for the Traveller campaign, Secrets of the Ancients. You can hear Seth\u2019s previous appearances with the Good Friends here: Interview with Seth Skorkowsky Interview with Jon Hook and Seth Skorkowsky Peril in Call of Cthulhu How to be an Investigator Quatermass and the Pit Links Things we mention in this episode include: D\u00e4moren by Seth Skorkowsky Valducan series by Seth Skorkowsky Ashes of Onyx by Seth Skorkowsky Weird fiction Sword and sorcery Robert E Howard American Gods by Neil Gaiman Beauty and the Beast MacGyver True Blood Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris Bright (2017) Shadowrun Hellboy by Mike Mignola The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurel K Hamilton Paranormal romance The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey Mage: the Ascension Occult detectives Vampire: the Masquerade World of Darkness Kindred: the Embraced Blade (1998) The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice \u201cThe Shadow Over Innsmouth\u201d by HP Lovecraft Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice Flotsam & Jetsam on How We Roll Winter Tide by Ruthana Emrys \u201cShoggoths in Bloom\u201d by Elizabeth Bear Twenty Palaces by Harry Connolly Felix Castor series by Mike Carey Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula (1992) The Laundry Files by Charles Stross The Laundry Files RPG Equoid by Charles Stross The Regicide Report by Charles Stross A Conventional Boy by Charles Stross Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London RPG Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey Hellblazer Constantine (2005) The Crow (1994) The Crow by James O\u2019Barr The Dispatcher by John Scalzi Charlie Parker series by John Connolly Fault Lines trilogy by Tim Powers Law & Order: Special Victims Unit The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers \u201cThe Whisperer in Darkness\u201d by HP Lovecraft It by Stephen King Escape From New York (1981) Neuromancer by William Gibson Pulp Cthulhu \u201cThe Meat Trade\u201d from World War Cthulhu: London Our Ladies of Sorrow Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber \u201cThe Call of Cthulhu\u201d by HP Lovecraft \u201cCrimson Letters\u201d from the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook The Exorcist\u2019s Codex Vaesen Kult: Divinity Lost Imajica by Clive Barker News A Weekend With Good Friends returns! A Weekend With Good Friends will be returning this summer! This, of course, is the online convention organised by our lovely listeners, hosted on The Good Friends of Jackson Elias Discord server. The convention will take place between the 12th-14th of June this year, so keep your calendars clear. We will share more details as they become available. New War Story Video From Seth Skorkowsky With perfect timing, Seth has just released a new RPG War Stories video covering an incident from a game he and Scott played together, GMed by our good friend, the late Bud Baird. This incident may be a mess, but Scott maintains that it made sense at the time. And we might have handled things more efficiently, but would it have been as much fun? The journey more enjoyable than the destination, even when that journey is in a flaming clown car, screaming at 100 MPH the wrong way down the motorway. Audio Player       ","author_name":"The Good Friends of Jackson Elias","author_url":"http:\/\/blasphemoustomes.com\/","html":"