The Trail of Cthulhu is an award-winning horror and investigation role-playing game, powered by the GUMSHOE system and produced under license from Chaosium. Acclaimed expert in the mysterious, Kenneth Hite, combines his encyclopedic knowledge of vivid historical details with his mastery of H. P. Lovecraft's classic horror tales to bring its cosmic malignancy to the 1930s, a time when the stealthy madness of the Elder Gods intertwines with the overwhelming cruelty of global totalitarianism.