pulp fiction

Right.

The movie pulp fiction.

A lot of people just think of the word pulp fiction and they think of that movie, but what that Ridge originally meant was this kind of serial release in these little magazines.

And the reason they were called pulp fiction was because the paper was so cheap that it was like that.

It gets brown real easy.

It gets wet and just dissolves.

Yeah.

Anyway, I'm sorry.

Yeah, these

are kind of like a Pulp Fiction magazine cover.

Exactly.

There is a very...

This is from the, you know, Pulp Fiction publishing tradition.

These are illustrated covers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's how I designed it, essentially.

More Pulp Fiction than pure Lovecraftian, especially more than what came out of from the old Chaosium, which, you know, obviously I got my inspiration from, you know, Call of Cthulhu role-playing and that type of thing, and I wanted to make a board game where...

I could essentially play that game myself, okay? Because I'd moved to New York, didn't have anybody to play with up there.

Babysitting little ones at night after I put them to bed, I started making Arkham Horror, the board game.

I like that, as an angel.

Howard's mentor and friend, the legendary father of pulp fiction, H.P. Lovecraft, described him as a lover of the simpler, older world of barbarian and pioneer days, when courage and strength took the place of subtlety and stratagem, and when a hearty, fearless race battled and bled.

The real secret of Howard sto- Howard's stories is that he himself is in every one of them.

All right.

Whilst Otto had been locked up in the loft, he'd actually been writing a hell of a lot.

And he began writing Pulp Fiction.

Not the movie.

I was going to say.

Also, at some point, Richard Shaver was institutionalized.

which I understand they did those things in that day when they didn't understand, but was he psychotic? I mean, there's a whole other story where Pulp Fiction, Ray Palmer took his story and made him a huge phenom.

And it goes on with him talking to rocks, like cutting into rocks and Richard Shaver.

So was he crazy? Did he have psychotic breakdowns? He had access.