Thursday, 3 January 2013



Some newsy type stuff I've been eager to spread:


Stygian Fox Publishing (SFP) and Chaosium, Inc. proudly announce an agreement allowing Stygian Fox to begin publishing official Call of Cthulhu role-playing game supplements.

While we have no firm release dates at present, but we're hoping the first book will appear at your FLGS, Chaosium's site, and our own site before the end of Q3 2013.

'The Things We Leave Behind' is our first book and will be a collection of modern day scenarios veering in a darkly disturbing direction.

We want to bring Cthulhu adventures, specifically modern ones, to a more mature audience and back to it's horror roots. We will aim to shock and horrify your players and much of our material will be geared at mature gamers. They will deal will with difficult and horrific subjects such as abductions, murder, and the stark knowledge that mankind itself can be more cold and calculating than anything from time & space.

There are no cuddly plushies here.

Stygian Fox are a collection of writers & artists who have had experience with gaming and horror before and are looking to deepen the terror for Cthulhu gamers.

Steff. J. Worthington is the owner and has been a map artist for 20 years but is a graphic designer by trade. Game-wise he's been seen in print for Chaosium, Vigilance Press, Mongoose, and Miskatonic River Press.

Jeffrey Moeller is the Cthulhu Line Editor and writer and has been writing published scenarios and campaigns for Call of Cthulhu and dark fantasy for 20 years, including scenarios in The Unspeakable Oath, Mortal Coils, The Resurrected: Out of the Vault, The Whisperer magazine, as well as The Primal State and The Sevenfold Path.

Simon Brake is one of our writers and is a creative artworker by day but takes time out to roleplay in dark and disturbing fictional worlds at night.

Adrian Gawain Jones is a writer and who has recently been working on a number of projects for Cakebread & Walton as well as Steam Driven Publishing.

Alyssa Faden is a cartographer and considers every mapping commission to be a privileged step into the mind of another person; seeing the mystical and fantasy worlds that they have created.

Jay Tillotson is our Webmistress and has been designing websites for a number of years and with experience in design, copywriting, web development and search marketing, our website is in safe hands.

The website is currently being updated but bookmark us to see what's coming here: http://www.stygianfox.com/

Saturday, 29 December 2012

Hi all,
I've been commissioned to draw the maps for Chaosium's latest version of the classic campaign; 'Horror On The Orient Express'. More to follow!

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Maps are more than just geography, they are as much a philosophy. How many places do you know intimately that are a reasonable distance away yet you don't know the places in between? modern transport has given us a strange disconnect when travelling that wasn't there in pre-industrial times. Mentally, we are not far away from having a kind of conscious teleportation. I don't mean physically, but motorways and highways now are so generic that we can drive for 100 miles on autopilot and forget the intervening countryside was even there.

With this in mind I sought to draw a mental map of the places close to me (chiefly the areas of West Cheshire, Gwynedd, Denbighshire, and Flintshire). In my mind I have no real perception of the lands in between my favourite places in northern Cambria , so I've just removed them. And as I don't drive anyway, I don't have a frame of reference for these places anyway.. that's why, in the map here, I have 'pulled in' the farther away places I love and gathered them together.

Do you have a mental map like this? A 'perception-projection'? What does yours look like? Try and sketch one... you may be surprised at how much you don't know of the lands you travel through.


Saturday, 8 December 2012

Hi all,
As we head into the Christmas festivities I find myself having completed two small commissions; trade dress for the forthcoming 'Age of Arthur' RPG and a map of a seedier part of Stark City (A superhero RPG city setting),

This means I am open to commissions! Need a map? 'course you do!
E-mail me at info@stygianfox.com for rates etc.

..and with my best Rudolph impression, I bid you a Merry Christmas!