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==Details==
[[Image:Secrets of San Francisco.jpg|thumb|''Front Cover'']]

'''Publisher:''' [[Chaosium]]

'''Product Code:''' 23108

'''Publishing Year:''' 2006

'''Pages:''' 192

'''Cover Price:''' $24.95

'''Author(s):''' [[Cody Goodfellow]], [[David Conyers]], [[Brian M. Sammons]], [[Elizabeth A. Wolcott]], [[Hilary Ayer]], [[Janice Sellers]], [[Badger McInnes]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Paul Carrick]] (cover & interior), [[Earl Geier]], [[Badger McInnes]], [[Tom Sullivan]], [[David Conyers]] (maps), [[Janice Sellers]] (maps)

'''Setting(s):''' [[1920s]]

'''Format(s):''' Softcover

'''ISBN:''' 1-56882-187-5 and 1-56882-136-0

==Contents==
This sourcebook provides information on using San Francisco as a setting for ''Call of Cthulhu'' adventures

The volume is divided into sections as follows:
* Introduction
* History of San Francisco
* The City
* Chinatown
* Earthquake & Fire
* Greater Bay Area
* Societies
* Legends and Celebrities
* Recreation
* Scenario: [[The Ferry Ride]]
* Scenario: [[The Westchester House]]
* Scenario: [[The Colour of His Eyes]]
* Scenario: [[Beyond the Edges]]
* Appendix: Maps & Handouts
* Bibliography
* Subject Index

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'''Scenarios:''' [[The Ferry Ride]], [[The Westchester House]], [[The Colour of His Eyes]], [[Beyond the Edges]]
 
==Front Cover Text==
1920s

A 1920s Sourcebook for the City by the Bay
 
==Back Cover Text==
'''Secrets of San Francisco'''

In all of North America there is no more perfect intersection of climate, culture, and colorful history than San 
Francisco — the culmination of Manifest Destiny, the Golden Gate to the Pacific Ocean, and the treasure house of 
the wealth of the great California Gold Rush. Purged of her wild, anarchic past by a devastating earthquake and 
fire at the beginning of the twentieth century, San Francisco has emerged as the most cosmopolitan city on the West 
Coast.

San Francisco is deceptively ancient; its history shrouded in a fog of false domesticity. The Bay Area has known 
many masters, each leaving a distinctive mark upon the land. As San Francisco blossoms it attracts fugitives and 
practitioners of unorthodox faiths from across the world. Tales of the region assume mythic proportions as it 
becomes the most ethnically diverse, and most lawless, place in America.

SECRETS OF SAN FRANCISCO provides excellent background for a Call of Cthulhu campaign set in the Bay Area of the 
1920s. It includes urban geography, civic history, research venues, and mythos lore. Many period photographs are 
provided and dozens of historical figures are introduced, including several who collaborated and corresponded with 
Lovecraft. Here are provided descriptions of where San Franciscan’s are sent when they break the law, go insane, or 
pass-beyond. Here are the sights, sounds, and secrets of this place that makes it a unique city.

<also includes an advertisement for Chaosium's ''Call of Cthulhu'' roleplaying and fiction lines>

==Comments / Trivia==
Dedicated to Ambrose Bierce

This book was massively delayed, reportedly due to a hard-disk failure destroying the only copy of the almost-
finished manuscript (which needed to be rewritten from scratch).

Strangely this book seems to have two ISBN numbers: the credits on the contents page list the book's ISBN 
incorrectly as 1-56882-136-0 while the back cover says its ISBN is 1-56882-187-5. An online search shows both 
numbers are commonly used to refer to the product.

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