The Book of the Smoke

The Book of Smoke is a primer for players of Lovecraftian roleplaying games set in the dismal streets of 1930s London.

The Guide is replete with contacts, rumours and clues which will guide you on your quest for forbidden knowledge. Accordingly, written as a companion to Bookhounds of London for Trail of Cthulhu, it serves as a Keeper’s resource and also functions as an in-game artifact for players in any Mythos game.

In 1933 a mysterious secret society commissioned Augustus Darcy to compile a guide to occult London. By the end of that year, Darcy was dead. Within these tales of the Smoke’s legendary past, clues to its future lie scattered. Was a magical war brewing? Were forces from other dimensions breaking through into our own? Who were the mysterious Brotherhood? Who killed Augustus Darcy and why? After eighty years Darcy’s book is here for you to make up your own mind. Use it as a guide as you venture into Darcy’s world and may your gods be with you in the days ahead.

At once, it is a work of fiction, an autobiography, an occult miscellany, and a murder mystery. It is a book that should not be read, yet cannot be cast aside. Ultimately, it is all these things and more. Above all, it guides your journey through the streets of the Big Smoke.