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The bronze doors of the entry (23’ high, 20' wide) are held fast by huge iron chains, and all cracks are sealed with soft iron. Graven upon these massive valves are runes. You note that the writing glows and seems to burn with silvery radiance, making your eyes teary.

The Temple of Elemental Evil, module T1-4 by Gary Gygax and Frank Mentzer, TSR, 1985. This unsigned illustration probably is by “Jack Fred,” Larry Elmore and Jeff Easley’s pseudonym for their contributions to this module. Gygax probably contributed the archaic term “valve” to mean “double doors” as he did in module G3: The Hall of the Fire Giant King.

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Battle at sea (Stephen Fabian, AD&D module N4: Treasure Hunt, TSR, 1986)

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Artwork for 'Guinevere and Lancelot & Others' by Arthur Machen, 1986 (Stephen Fabian)

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Encounters on dungeon level 3 of The Temple of Elemental Evil, module T1-4 by Gary Gygax and Frank Mentzer, TSR, 1985: ettin, hill giant, ogre, trolls, gargoyles. I think this is by Jeff Easley; the signature “J Fred” is “Jack Fred,” a pseudonym used by Elmore and Easley that appears throughout this module.

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Maéna Paillet

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What if Lynda Carter guest starred as the killer in an episode of Columbo?

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Ami Thompson - Velmira II the vampire queen

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Svetoslav Petrov - svetoslavi

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Joonas Ryynänen

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Writer Murdered in His Home Harold Langley, a local occult writer, was killed in a bizarre murder last night in his home. Langley was 42. Police state that the investigation is proceeding "smoothly," but they have no leads at this point. Two Miskatonic University professors are reported to have found the body when keeping an appointment with Langley. Langley wrote occult fiction for popular magazines and local newspapers. Some of his more famous stories are "The House of the Worm," "Shadows of Yog-Sothoth," and the infamous "The Defilers," which set a record last year when it was published by this periodical and caused 110 letters of indignation to be written by local readers. --The Arkham Advertiser, September 23, 1920

(Janet Aulisio illustration from "The Horror out of Partridgeville," Call of Cthulhu scenario by Frederick Paul Kiesche III, Challenge magazine 46, GDW, October-November 1990)

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Landship, Ogre, BOLO, or 40K Imperial tank; note the runways for planes above the side skirts

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"The Sultanate of Zeif is the westernmost state of the Flanaess. The warm currents of the Drawmidj make the land very rich, although the Sultan possesses few mineral resources save a secret source of chrysoberyls and peridots which are so fine as to be sought after as far east as Keoland, Furyondy, and beyond." (Erol Otus, The World of Greyhawk by Gary Gygax, original folio edition, TSR, 1980)