Max_Writer

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

(After playing the Call of Cthulhu scenario “The Wizard of Wilson Creek” Saturday at MACE 2011 in high Point with Carl Little and Georgette from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.)

In the late spring of 1928, practicing attorney Daniel Fuller received a letter at his office in Boston. It read:


200 Lee St.
Boston, Ma
Friday, May 11, 1928

Mr. Fuller,

It has come to my attention that ...

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On Friday, May 25, 1928, two disparate men got off the train in Lenoir, North Carolina. Daniel Fuller was short and skinny and his companion, Bill McAfee, was tall and solid. They got directions to the offices of Atkinson, Birch, and Fisher and were soon talking to Mr. Atkinson, a slim man in his mid-thirties with round glasses.

“So, you’re Mr. Fuller?” Mr. Atkinson asked.

“Yes, I am,” Fuller replied.

“I got the keys to the Campbell ...

The next article from the Lenoir News-Topic dated Wednesday, August 20, 1919, read:


Asheville woman gone!
Search of Wilson Gorge fruitless

MORTIMER – An Asheville woman staying in a rental house on Wilson Creek disappeared
Saturday. A subsequent search of Yellow Buck Mountain and the Wilson Creek Gorge turned
up nothing.

Sharon Hutchinson, 28, of Asheville, was reported missing on Saturday evening by friends ...

The farmer looked at him for a moment and then climbed slowly down the ladder.

“Why you goin’ there?” he asked. “Ain’t nothin’ good there.”

“That’s what I’m hearing,” Fuller said. “I’ve been hired to investigate the house and see that it’s still intact. By William Abington; he’s apparently the owner of the house now.”

“All right, there’s been some strange things going on up there.”

“I gathered.”

“I think I know what’s ...

Fuller tried the roll-top and it closed and opened easily with a rattle. He remembered that Atkinson said he had put some books and manuscripts in the house. He wondered why they were not in the study and looked over the books in the bookshelf but didn’t see anything like what Atkinson had described.

Examining the ledgers proved them simple accounting books. However, the 1915 book, which lay by itself, showed a change in mortgage payments and an influx of money, as if the owner ...