This month, Seth and Jon gush about the amazing series on Hulu/FX... ALIEN: Earth.

-- WARNING -- There are SPOILERS!!!

In addition to ALIEN: Earth, Jon talks about the new Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes, published by Magnetic Press Play.

ALIEN: Earth

• Created for television, and written by, Noah Hawley

• Staring:

  • Sydney Chandler (Wendy)

  • Essie Davis (Dame Sylvia)

  • Samuel Blenkin (Boy Kavalier)

  • Babou Ceesay (Morrow)

  • Alex Lawther (Joe Hermit)

  • Adarsh Gourav (Slightly)

  • Timothy Olyphant (Kirsh)

• The series is set two years before the classic 1979 movie, ALIEN, by Ridley Scott

• Five corporations govern the Earth:

  • Weyland-Yutani (Americas)

  • Prodigy (Oceania, Asia, and South Africa)

  • Lynch (Russia)

  • Dynamic (North Africa, Middle East, and the Moon)

  • Threshold (Europe)

• Creatures collected by the crew of the Maginot:

  • Xenomorphs

  • Ticks

  • Octo-Eye

  • Flies

  • Plant Pod (ie: Orchid)

• Xenopedia: https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes

• Published by Magnetic Press Play: https://www.magnetic-press.com/about-magnetic-press-play/

• Game Engine: Modified version of the West End Games D6

  • D6MV: D6 Magnetic Variant

• Players may play as:

  • Chimpanzees

  • Orangutans

  • Gorillas

  • Tribal Humans

  • Time-Lost Astro-nauts

  • Mutated Humans

• The setting is ideally suited for:

  • World exploration, like you might experience with Dungeons & Dragons

  • Investigations, like you might experience with Call of Cthulhu or Blade Runner

  • Horror, like you might experience with Call of Cthulhu

We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome!

We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He’s a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account.

https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow

http://www.johnsumrow.com

https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow

And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site.

https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/

http://thickets.net/

@darkestthickets.bsky.social

Jon Hook as The Keeper of Arcane Lore

David as Zadok Felton (a Physicist)

Dru as Acadian Broussard (a Pharmicist)

Erin as Libby Howizer (an Art Dealer)

Troy as Augustas "Gus" Jones (a Handyman)

Vanessa as Violette Holzmann (a Botanist)

Willie as Tomas Leche Dvaca (a Student)

Join Seth and Jon as they welcome Jeffrey Moeller to the show, author of such works as "Ladybug Ladybug Fly Away Home," and the upcoming "Seasons Change."

Jon and Seth also talk about the horror they've been consuming over the summer, be it on TV, movies, or reading.

Jon Hook as The Keeper of Arcane Lore

David as Zadok Felton (a Physicist)

Dru as Acadian Broussard (a Pharmicist)

Erin as Libby Howizer (an Art Dealer)

Troy as Augustas "Gus" Jones (a Handyman)

Vanessa as Violette Holzmann (a Botanist)

Willie as Tomas Leche Dvaca (a Student)

Jon Hook as The Keeper of Arcane Lore

David as Zadok Felton (a Physicist)

Dru as Acadian Broussard (a Pharmicist)

Erin as Libby Howizer (an Art Dealer)

Troy as Augustas "Gus" Jones (a Handyman)

Vanessa as Violette Holzmann (a Botanist)

Willie as Tomas Leche Dvaca (a Student)

Welcome to a new season of the Summer Book Club!

In this episode, hosts Jon Hook and James Droucker talk about the selection of stories in "Into the Cthulhu-Universe," edited by Steven Paulsen and Christopher Sequeira.

Table of Contents:

• The Chaos Lords of Mars, by Jonathan Maberry

• Twas Brilling, by Cat Rambo

• Sweet Music, by Jason Nahrung

• Simbiyu and the Nameless, by Eugene Bacon

• The Meatamorphosis, by Aaron Sterns

• Innsmouth Park, by Jane Routley

• The Queen's Solution, by Peter Rawlik & Sal Ciano

• Dread Island, by Joe R. Lansdale

• Fhtagntastic Four, by Christopher Sequeria & Jan Scherpenhuizen

• The Sleepwalker's Manifesto, by Kat Clay

• Creatures of the Night Train, by Del Howison

• A Perfect Summer for Baseball, Tentacles, Mutants, and Love, by Barry N. Malzberg & Jack Dann

• Three Bad Actors In A Silvery Room, by Steve Proposch

• Fame Bites, by Anna Tambour

• Leftovers, by Jim Krueger

• The Power of F'thagn, by Scott Driscoll

• Hill-Runner and the Enemy From Behind the Curtain of Stars, by Gerry Huntman

• The Colour Out of Hautdesert, by JM Merryt

• The Sign of Daoloth, by Ramsey Campbell

Seth and Jon sojourned to Ypsilanti, (Ann Arbor/Detroit adjacent), for Chaosium Con 2025! As you can well imagine, it was amazing!

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Fire Lizard Games, thank you for sponsoring this episode!

Check out Fire Lizard Games' upcoming Yith Borg game! Designed with the Mork Borg rules, in Yith Borg you are a Yithian looking to stake your claim on Earth in the hellscape aftermath of a Mythos-fueled cataclysm that devastated the planet in 1920.

Check out their Upcoming Projects page at: https://www.firelizardgames.com/upcoming-projects

And check out their full site at: https://www.firelizardgames.com/

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While at Chaosium Con, Seth and Jon did some "Man on the Street" interviews with convention goers we ran into in the lobby/bar in the morning hours of Friday and Saturday. This entire endeavor would not have been possible without friend-of-the-show and new Modern Mythos editor, Zach Sokol! Thank you, Zach!

Zach provided all of the equipment we used to record these "live" sessions, and he fully edited this episode. We are thrilled to add Zach's audio expertise to the team.

We interviewed:

• Ben Burns, of New Comet Games

• Andy Miesem

• Holly Buetow, of RPG Reanimators

• Rina Hensey

• Matt "Doc" Tracey

• Bucho Rodenberger

• Sandy Petersen

• Zach Sokol

We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome!

We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He’s a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes.

https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow

http://www.johnsumrow.com

https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow

And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes.

https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/

http://thickets.net/

@darkestthickets.bsky.social

And once again, a huge thank you to our sponsor Fire Lizard Games. Thanks for listening.