Lurid Tales of Doom is an adventure booklet for the Ghostbusters Role-Playing Game. As part of a publicity stunt for their parent company, the players' Ghostbusters are hired to accompany a reporter from Lurid Tales of DOOM!, a trashy tabloid, and verify if a number of bizarre stories are genuinely supernatural. The booklet also contains an air travel Routine.
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| - Lurid Tales of Doom is an adventure booklet for the Ghostbusters Role-Playing Game. As part of a publicity stunt for their parent company, the players' Ghostbusters are hired to accompany a reporter from Lurid Tales of DOOM!, a trashy tabloid, and verify if a number of bizarre stories are genuinely supernatural. The booklet also contains an air travel Routine.
- Sometimes newspapers of a more questionable level of veracity publish news that is clearly bunk, in the case of alien abductions and yetis being found. Other times they'll print that which might be true but seems to be kinda loopy and of questionable newsworthiness - toast burned in the likeness of historical figures for example. These stories are of course either complete fabrications in the former case (either made up by journalists or via bored Alan Fridge-esque submissions), or are just questionable coincidences. Not necessarily related to Doomy Dooms of Doom.
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| - Los Cazafantasmas: Historias Tenebrosas
- Lurid Tales of Doom
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| - 1990(xsd:integer)
- 1992(xsd:integer)
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| - West End Games
- JOC Internacional
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| - ISBN 0874312035
- ISBN 847831105x
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| - Lurid Tales of Doom is an adventure booklet for the Ghostbusters Role-Playing Game. As part of a publicity stunt for their parent company, the players' Ghostbusters are hired to accompany a reporter from Lurid Tales of DOOM!, a trashy tabloid, and verify if a number of bizarre stories are genuinely supernatural. The booklet also contains an air travel Routine.
- Sometimes newspapers of a more questionable level of veracity publish news that is clearly bunk, in the case of alien abductions and yetis being found. Other times they'll print that which might be true but seems to be kinda loopy and of questionable newsworthiness - toast burned in the likeness of historical figures for example. These stories are of course either complete fabrications in the former case (either made up by journalists or via bored Alan Fridge-esque submissions), or are just questionable coincidences. The news industry calls this type of "news" 'Man Bites Dog', a name that seems rather more mundane than some of these stories actually tend to be. This sort of publication shows up in fiction from time to time too, especially ones which heavily feature either journalists or well known people (within their universe) frequently or where weird happenings really do occur and these stories are true - or sometimes these stories are bizarre even for the setting. Not necessarily related to Doomy Dooms of Doom. Examples of Lurid Tales of Doom include:
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