QuoteAccording to Lovecraft's "History of the Necronomicon" (written 1927, first published 1938), Alhazred was:

    a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia—the Roba El Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients—and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus.

In 730, while still living in Damascus, Alhazred supposedly wrote a book of ultimate evil in Arabic, al-Azif, which would later become known as the Necronomicon. Those who have dealings with this book usually come to an unpleasant end, and Alhazred was no exception. Again according to Lovecraft's "History":

    Of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th cent. biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses. Of his madness many things are told. He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu.

Quote from: Opaopajr;9661101960s. And further divided between two distinct periods within the decade: 1) early 1960s, the greasers, folk, & beat poets, 2) late 1960s, the hippies, glam, & psychedelica.

Quote from: JeremyR;966211And surfers. I guess they fall in line with the former period more than the later. Although I want to say there was a '60s surfer themed adventure in one of the Blood Brothers adventure compilations for CoC

I think glam was more a 70s thing. T.Rex's Electric Warrior was basically the first one. And I think the 1970s would also be a good pick. Exploitation movies, disco, rock hitting its zenith, Roots, disaster movies

Think of it. Mi-Go with afros (Mi-Fro-Gos). Pimps worshiping Shub-Niggurath. Deep Ones with bell bottoms and leisure suits and strange gold chains

Quote from: jeff37923;966215I'd like to see a crossover with the X-Files personally as a setting. I think that it would naturally go together.

Quote from: Omega;966217TSR's Dark*Matter essentially is that. Beyond the supernatural from Palladium did as well. Just with better armed crew.

Quote from: Opaopajr;9661101960s. And further divided between two distinct periods within the decade: 1) early 1960s, the greasers, folk, & beat poets, 2) late 1960s, the hippies, glam, & psychedelica.

Quote from: Cave Bear;966234(Grounded) cyberpunk near-future, just to properly fuck with people who insist Call of Cthulhu doesn't work while players have access to smart phones and the internet.