The Watchers of Walberswick is something of a classic scenario (with what might be considered sandbox elements) for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, first appearing in issue 50 of White Dwarf in February 1984.
I mention it here as something of an aside to the promised post (additional ruminations on Lovecraft and the Rendlesham Forest Incident) not only because the issue of White Dwarf in question appeared in my post this morning, but because, coincidentally, The Watchers of Walberswick also has a tangential bearing on yesterday’s entry: the scenario is set in the real-world locale of Walberswick on the Suffolk coast, which happens to be only a few miles from Dunwich, and about twenty miles from Rendlesham Forest (Dunwich River also flows past Dunwich to Walberswick, where it connects with the River Blyth before entering the North Sea).
Whilst I’m sure that this has no significant bearing on any Lovecraft-Rendlesham connection, it nonetheless speaks to how the area in question (no doubt because of the Dunwich connection) has accrued other (albeit fictive) Lovecraftian associations.
In any case, tomorrow I will return to an examination of how recent historical developments in the field of ufology has led to Lovecraft being linked to Rendlesham via the recent BBC adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness.
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