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Tables of Contents for Gurps Horror
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
About Gurps
3
1
Introduction: Enter Freely and of Your Own Will
4
1
The Rag and Bone Shop
5
18
Personalizing Characters
6
1
Typical Character and Backgrounds
6
1
Character Templates
6
11
Monsters as Characters
13
4
Advantages, Disadvantages, and Skills
17
6
Advantages
17
1
Secret Advantages and Disadvantages
18
1
New Advantages
18
3
Disadvantages
21
1
Skills
22
1
Disadvantages From Fright Checks
22
1
Alone Against the Dark
23
8
Embrace Your Fear
24
1
Motivation, or ``Why Are We in This Graveyard at Night?''
24
1
Character Design
25
2
Character Concept
25
1
Brief Biography
25
1
Character Hooks
25
1
Character Development
26
1
Party Design
27
1
Working With the Other Players
27
1
The Challenge
28
3
Investigation
28
1
Monster-Hunting
28
1
The Monster-Hunter's Toolbox
29
2
Things That Go Bump in the Night
31
32
Choosing Your Monster
32
1
Thoroughly Modern Monstrosity
32
1
Race or Monster?
32
1
Stereotypes and Archetypes
33
1
Monsters as Fears
33
1
Fear of Taint
33
3
The Vampire
33
1
Vlad the Impaler
34
1
The Ghoul
35
1
Fear of Nature
36
4
The Werewolf
36
1
Fear of Sex
37
2
The Wolf Man
39
1
Becoming a Werewolf
39
1
Quick-and-Dirty Shape shifting
40
1
Stopping a Werewolf
40
1
Fear of Madness
40
2
The Serial Killer
40
1
The Psycho Killer
41
1
Psycho Killer Weapons
41
1
The Evil Clown
42
1
Fear of Mutilation
42
3
Mutilation Panics
43
1
Jack the Ripper
43
1
The Ripper
43
1
The Ultimate Mutilation: The Disembodied Brain
44
1
The Creeping Hand
44
1
Fear of the Universe
45
3
Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
45
1
Fear of the Foreign
45
1
Fear of Natives: The Manitou
45
1
Cosmic Deities
46
1
Ancient Ones
46
1
Describing the Indescribable
46
1
Minions
47
1
Poisoning Phobias
48
1
Fear of the Unnatural
48
7
The Ghost
48
1
Ghosts in the Game
48
2
Some Specialized Ghosts
50
3
Malevolent Objects
53
1
Alien Invaders
54
1
Fear of Others
55
1
The Unseelie
55
1
Other Hidden Races
55
1
Faerie Fear Filters
56
1
Fear of Disease
56
2
The Killer Virus
56
1
Stopping the Plague
57
1
Nosferatu: The Plague Vampire
58
1
Fear of Death
58
3
The Zombie
58
1
Variant Zombies
59
1
The Mummy
60
1
The Mummy's Curse
60
1
More Monsters
61
2
The Natural Unnatural
61
1
Hell and Horror
62
1
Dark Theaters
63
22
Campaign Length
64
1
One-Shots
64
1
Extended Campaigns
64
1
Narrative Structures
64
3
Escape
65
1
Gauntlet
65
1
Extended Campaigns and Plausibility
65
1
Nemesis
66
1
GURPS Cabal
66
1
Picaresque
66
1
Quest
66
1
Mix and Match
66
1
Protagonists and Antagonists
67
2
Against the Darkness: Heroes
67
1
Let the Players Play
68
1
Pre-Generated PCs?
68
1
The Nature of the Beast: Enemies
68
1
Design Parameters
69
5
High-Powered Horror
70
1
Scale
71
1
Scope
71
1
Precisely Calibrated Evil
72
1
Austerity
72
1
Boundaries
73
1
Across the Planes
73
1
Uncanny Powers
74
3
Magic
74
1
Rural or Urban?
74
1
Psionics
75
1
Magic Items
76
1
Black Technology
76
1
Super Abilities
77
1
Horrifying Genres
77
8
Fantasy Horror
77
1
Dreamworlds
78
1
Historical Horror
78
1
Victorian England
79
1
The Roaring '20s
80
1
Modern-Day Horror
80
2
Science-Fiction Horror
82
2
Horror across Time
84
1
Ominous Feelings, Gathering Shadows
85
20
Elements of Horror
86
1
Uncertainty
86
1
Isolation
86
1
Surrealism
86
1
The Unnatural
87
1
Styles and Themes
87
7
Modes and Approaches
88
1
Styles
88
1
Thrills vs. Gore
89
2
Themes
91
1
Gothic Horror
91
1
Symbolic Settings
92
2
Running Horror
94
4
Timing
94
1
Changes of Pace
94
1
Props and Atmosphere
94
1
Adding Horror In
95
1
Who Can You Trust?
95
1
Fright Checks
95
1
Cumulative Effects of Fear
96
1
Multiple Fright Checks
97
1
Ad Hoc Fright Checks
97
1
Sanity-Blasting Fright Checks
98
1
Scenario Design
98
2
The Story Hook
98
1
First Blood
98
1
Building in the Twists
99
1
The Teaser
99
1
Making it Different
100
1
The Payoff
100
1
A Good Bad Man is Hard To Find
100
5
Villains and Beasts
101
1
Villainous Motives
101
1
Victims: Their Creation and Abuse
102
1
Opportunity
103
1
Cowards Die a Thousand Deaths
104
1
Tales to Terrify
105
18
Seas of Dread, Sails of Daring
106
5
Variations
106
1
The Campaign
106
1
Design Parameters
106
1
Other Settings
107
1
Characters
107
1
Uncanny Powers
108
1
Cinematic Pirate Template
108
1
Here Be Monsters
108
1
More Monsters
109
1
Possible Narrative Structures
110
1
Inspirational Material
110
1
Blood in the Craters
111
6
The Campaign
111
1
Design Parameters
112
1
Characters
112
1
Uncanny Powers
112
1
Martian Monsters
112
1
Variations
112
1
Red Technology
113
2
Possible Narrative Structures
115
1
Inspirational Material
115
1
The Secret History of History
116
1
The Madness Dossier
117
6
The Campaign
117
1
Variations
117
1
Design Parameters
117
1
Campaign Crossovers
118
1
Characters
118
1
Uncanny Powers
118
1
Reality Quake Table
119
1
Irruptors
120
1
Reality Subduction Zones
120
1
Irruptors as PCs
121
1
Possible Narrative Structures
122
1
Inspirational Material
122
1
Blasphemous Lore
123
4
Index
127
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