The Golden Dawn is a sourcebook for Call of Cthulhu, written by John Tynes, John T. Snyder, "Alan Smithee", Steve Hatherley, Garrie Hall, and Scott Aniolowski, and published by Pagan Publishing in 1996. It's based based on the PCs being members of the early Golden Dawn -- a famous occult secret society based in London of the 1890s. I began running a campaign using this in June 2006.

         Material central to the campaign has been adapted from John Tynes' adventures "The Room Beyond" and "Sheela-na-gig" (from the sourcebook The Golden Dawn) along with Kevin A. Ross' "Signs Writ in Scarlet" and "Plant Y Daear", and Fred Behrendt's "Sacraments of Evil" (all in the adventure collection Sacraments of Evil).

• Players' Handout from The Golden Dawn

An 8MB PDF file covering the players handout from the appendices of the Golden Dawn sourcebook. This includes a brief history of the GD, rules for creating Victorian investigators, and rules on GD instruction.

 

• Character Descriptions (PC and NPC)

An overview of the major characters involved.

 

• Session Summaries

Plot summaries of the sessions, starting with a basic timeline.

 

• Player Aids

The player handouts shown thus far in the adventures -- documents seen by the investigators.

• Aid #1: The Journal of Thomas Pellgraine
• Aid #2: The Diary of Andrea Pellgraine
• Aid #3: The Proto-Arthurian Manuscript
• Aid #4: Fotheringay-Phipps Private Journal (RTF)
• Aid #5: Prynn's "Mysteries of the Worm"
• Aid #6: Monstres and Their Kynde
• Aid #7: What You Know About Sheela-na-gig
• Aid #8: The Works of Melinda Pryce
• Aid #9: The Multicameral Anatomy of the Brain
• Aid #10: The Bronze Tablets
• Aid #11: De Vermiis Mysteriis

 

• 1890s Character Sheet

An 0.1MB PDF one-page sheet, from Cthulhu 6th ed.

External Links

• The Victorian Web
  An excellent overview of many Victorian issues, authored by George P. Landow for Brown University's Context 61.
• Dictionary of Victorian London Online
  This is a vast list of short entries on London of 1880-1900, compiled by Lee Jackson. Many entries come Dickens's Dictionary of London (see below).
• The City as Hero: Victorian London in Life and Literature
  Another academic course, though less extensive.
• Dicken's Dictionary of London 1888: An Unconventional Handbook
  An unusual period guide to London, in the form of a dictionary with hundreds of entries on individual sites.
• The Alchemy Virtual Library
  A resource with many texts and especially evocative illustrations from original alchemical works.
• Tarot Readings Site
  This includes the Buryn deck (below) and Rider-Waite. It will give random readings using either deck.
• Casebook: Jack the Ripper
  Details on the Jack the Ripper murders, from which Shadows in the Fog gets its name.