Taint of Madness: Insanity and Dread Within Asylum Walls (Call of Cthulhu Horror Roleplaying) [Paperback]

Michael Tice (Author), Eric Rowe (Author), Shannon Appel (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Chaosium Inc. (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568820429
• ISBN-13: 978-1568820422
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,727,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book -- and not really about Call of Cthulhu, June 12, 2002

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Noah Gibbs (San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taint of Madness: Insanity and Dread Within Asylum Walls (Call of Cthulhu Horror Roleplaying) (Paperback)

Don't get me wrong. There are basic additional insanity rules, though not many. They've got a quick Asylum setting each for the 1890's, the 1920's and the 1990's. There are a couple of photocopyable handouts and scattered references to mythos beasties.

But really this is a book about the treatment of the insane from the 1890's to the present. It includes treatments, attitudes, medical gibberish from the different eras -- even cure and death rates from historical Asylums! In between dark hints for investigators, the book is packed with a tremendous amount of historical information, and it delivers with a flourish. Beautiful.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly In-Depth!, April 12, 2000

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Dystopia Magazine "[e-mail]" (FL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Taint of Madness: Insanity and Dread Within Asylum Walls (Call of Cthulhu Horror Roleplaying) (Paperback)

Taint of Madness is an excellent source of insanity! The detailed disorders and phobias as well as their possible "treatments" are a real dark spin to the game! A perfect explanation of how low the human mind can go! AWESOME!

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brillant!!, January 8, 2002

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C Bo (Room 218, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Taint of Madness: Insanity and Dread Within Asylum Walls (Call of Cthulhu Horror Roleplaying) (Paperback)

This book is eggcellent! I couldn't put it down from the moment that I picked it up. I'm looking foward to more of Tice's works. This book is enTICEing!