books about: hastur (children tatters fiction)

books about: hastur

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Heritage and Exile: The Heritage of Hastur & Sharra's Exile (Darkover)
Marion Zimmer Bradley

DAW, 2002

The people of Darkover are descendants of Terran colonists who over centuries had lost their science, turning instead to the curious technology of the matrix stones and laran, or psi, powers. During the lawless Ages of Chaos and the time of the Hundred Kingdoms, these powers were used to drive weapons that could kill from afarweapons so terrible that they almost destroyed Darkover until they were banned by the Compact. Set during the Second Age, ...

Tatters of the King: Hastur's Gaze Gains Brief Focus Upon the Earth (Call of Cthulhu Horror Roleplaying)

2 reviews
Tim Wiseman

Chaosium Inc., 2006

Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
I run a Living Arcanis campaign, which also contains Freeport. With a wealth of material at my disposal, I decided to pick up Tatters of the King (TOK) to see how I could fit it into my campaign. I should point out that this is a long playtest review that contains spoilers galore. To help clarify what I did differently in my campaign, I will use a PLAYTEST tag. Tatters of the King is a massive ...

The Hastur Cycle (Cthulhu Mythos Fiction Series)

6 reviews
Chambers, Wagner, ...

Chaosium, 1997

My first Cthulhu Mythos Fiction book, but not my last...
THE HASTUR CYCLE was a very entertaining book of frightening short stories. Some of the stories didn't make sense to me(this may be because I'm just a teenager), but most of them were good. I enjoyed this book immensely, especially Lovecraft's short story "THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS." The book was pretty good.

The Heritage of Hastur (Darkover)

13 reviews
Marion Zimmer Bradley

DAW, 1984

One of the best of the Darkover novels.
Certainly exceptional at the time it was written; it is not one of the earliest written Darkover novels, but it was written much closer to the beginning than to the end of MZB's career, and it is at least as good as, and perhaps better than, many of the books that were written after she'd developed a great deal more experience and seasoning as a writer. It is one of the best "coming of age" ...

Children of Hastur (Darkover)

1 review
Marion Zimmer Bradley

N. Doubleday, 1982

Mature Darkover
This volume contains The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile--the same two books put together by Daw, years later, under the title Heritage and Exile. Along with the three Renunciate books, written in the same time frame, these books hooked me on the Darkover series. They explore some fundamental social and political dimensions of Darkover and lay the foundation for the stories of ...