FIRST TURN
SANDY PETERSEN
The master of horror RPGs looks back on what him to Cthulhu way back in 1981
Interview by Dan Jolin
BACKGROUND
“Cthulhu first called me when I was eight years old. I found a book in my dad’s storage pile: a 1942 edition of The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft. Until I was in my 20s, every single person who had heard of Lovecraft had learned about him because I had told them. I was his flag-bearer, as far as I can tell. By the time Chaosium asked me to design Call of Cthulhu, I’d already done some expansions and things for RuneQuest, and articles for their magazines. That was on the strength that I really liked Lovecraft and I’d never missed a deadline.”