Shelf of Madness

Props, display pieces, books, and curiosities from my personal collection.

The King in Yellow Annotated Edition – Homebound

Finally finished up my latest project. When working on my Yellow Sign display, I was introduced to the amazing Annotated Edition of The King in Yellow.  Unfortunately, I quickly discovered it is no longer available in print.  However, it is available...

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Essential Saltes

Finished up my Essential Saltes. I'd kept this gift set because it seemed like something I could use as a display.  Decided to stick with numbering each subject, with a couple of additional touches on the bottle labels. It was originally...

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Stone Seals and Clay Tablets

Here's another one of my handmade displays for my Shelf of Madness.  This was actually made prior to my Yellow Sign and Carcosian Star Chart displays - after the brain cylinder. One of my favorite purchased artifacts is a set...

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Carcosian Star Chart fragment

This all started when I saw this cool star chart an intrepid Keeper made for their game.  The constellation referenced in Tatters of the King campaign gave me ideas on the specifics.  And it kind of grew from there... I...

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Shelf of Madness Archives

Building from my collection of mythos-related games and book, as well as my interest in integrating props into tabletop games, I’ve gradually developed a fondness for displaying my collection.  In some areas it’s modest, in other areas less so. ...

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Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?

Another addition to hang above my Shelf of Madness - followed by a companion piece after some fellow Reddit cultists pointed me to some other variations - these contain a number of examples (9 actually, or maybe 10...) of...

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Always Begin with the Brain

Following a conversation with a fellow member of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society, I decided to take a crack at creating a Mi-Go Brain Cylinder as a prop/display. Having not done anything like this before, it was very much a...

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