This is, by far, the best campaign reference book for any game involving the Cthulhu Mythos. Alphabetical entries on people, places, and things from stories by Lovecraft and other influential writers of the Cthulhu Mythos, including Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, and more. There are cross-references to related entries, and notations on what stories by which authors the subject of the entry have appeared in.
I find it useful for a number of things. I like creating characters (both PCs and NPCs) that are related to established characters in the stories. I find it a good source of obscure monsters, so players aren't constantly fighting deep ones, ghouls, and Cthulhu cultists. It gives me interesting locations and bits to history to work with.
My copy is well-worn and thoroughly defaced. I used colored highlighters to further identify bits of use to me -- ll book titles highlighted in one color, for example, all references to the Massechussetts area (where my campaign is set) in another color, and so on. I also have page flags, and index cards (also color coded by topic) stuffed into the paged with my own notes.
What I'd like to see is all of this information dumped into a wiki. It wouldn't even have to be a website; I'd pay for a proprietary wiki with this info, which could be installed on my computer and to which I could add my own campaign notes.
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