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The Athenaeum · H. P. Lovecraft

The Unquiet
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The evidence is here. So is the door. H. P. Lovecraft's fiction offers more than one way into the unknown: a scattered mystery, a town with a secret, or an expedition to the edge of the map.

See the three adventure paths

These are adventure previews. None is open for public play yet.

Three possible beginnings

Which dread calls to you?

Each planned solo adventure begins with a different kind of decision. You will not need to know the original stories to enter; readers who do know them will recognize the places, clues, and questions behind these doors.

A lamplit investigator's desk holds maritime charts, photographs, and a carved stone
01 / Investigation

The Call of Cthulhu

Someone has left you a dossier whose separate pieces should never fit together. A death, a dream, a ship, an object dredged from the wrong place: decide which lead deserves your trust and who should hear what you find.

Your first question: which witness do you believe?

Adventure in development
A traveler reaches a tide-washed harbour town as a few distant residents watch the street
02 / Survival and secrets

The Shadow over Innsmouth

You arrive with a reason to ask questions. The tide changes, the road home becomes uncertain, and the people you meet have reasons of their own to keep you there. Learn what the town protects, and decide whether escape is enough.

Your first question: who can help you leave?

Adventure in development
Two Antarctic explorers face immense ancient ruins beyond their snowbound camp
03 / Expedition

At the Mountains of Madness

A polar expedition stops answering. The search leads beyond the safe route, toward ruins that alter every assumption you brought with you. Supplies, companions, evidence, and the journey back all matter.

Your first question: what will you risk to learn more?

Adventure in development

Behind the three doors

The stories are the starting point.

These paths draw from Lovecraft's original fiction. The planned adventures would give your character choices and a continuing record of what you learn and change. The source text remains the source; your play would be its own history.

The Call of CthulhuRead the source ↗ The Shadow over InnsmouthRead the source ↗ At the Mountains of MadnessRead the source ↗

Source links open Project Gutenberg. The playable adaptations and their final rules are still being developed.

The rest of the house awaits

There are other worlds beyond this door.

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