Dwellers in Shadow (1996) is a bit of a mixed bag. I really like John T. Snyder’s cover, it’s very subtle. I cannot fathom why they chose a wonton font for all the headers, though. R. D. Sandford returns to do all the interiors but he uses a lot of washes, which I like less than his pure ink work.

Six scenarios. I’m ambivalent about three. “Watcher in the Bayou” has a sorcerer trying to dupe the investigators into retrieving an evil artifact from leach-monster-infested waters. “Whispers of the Mind,” I read it like fifteen minutes ago and already have lost the salient details. “Time and the Serpent” is a time travel riff, and I almost never like those.

The remaining three are interesting. “The Dare” is sort of a curiosity; this was its original publication and it was heavily edited. The 2020 stand-alone version restores and expands on the original and is much better, but you can see the potential here. “Configurations of the Flesh,” is also not quite where I want it to be, but poses an interesting situation with an accidental cult of yuppies. “Skinwalker” rounds things out with some vibes that are similar to Delta Green, where a Navajo witch summons and serves an entity and players get involved in what seems to be a serial killing case. Of the three, I like that one best, probably.