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Nameless City, Nameless Terrors

”Remote in the desert of Araby lies the nameless city, crumbling and inarticulate, its low walls nearly hidden by the sands of uncounted ages. It must have been thus before the first stones of Memphis were laid, and while the bricks of Babylon were yet unbaked. There is no legend so old as to give it a name, or to recall that it was ever alive; but it is told of in whispers around campfires and muttered about by grandams in the tents of sheiks so that all the tribes shun it without wholly knowing why. It was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet dreamed on the night before he sang his unexplained couplet: ‘That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.’”

- H.P. Lovecraft, “The Nameless City”


Nameless City, Nameless Terrors is a Classic era scenario for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game. The game utilizes the 7th edition of the Call of Cthulhu rules. It is taken from the adventure of the same name authored by Brian M. Sammons in the collection The House of R’lyeh, published by Chaosium.