Secondly, having settled it to be God's will that man should continue his species, we discovered an organ of amativeness, forthwith. We then assigned to man an organ of alimentiveness, and this organ is the scourge with which the Deity compels man, will-I nill-I, into eating. In the matter of phrenology, for example, we first determined, naturally enough, that it was the design of the Deity that man should eat. Having thus fathomed, to his satisfaction, the intentions of Jehovah, out of these intentions he built his innumerable systems of mind. The intellectual or logical man, rather than the understanding or observant man, set himself to imagine designs - to dictate purposes to God. It cannot be denied that phrenology and, in great measure, all metaphysicianism have been concocted a priori. We could not understand, that is to say, we could not have understood, had the notion of this primum mobile ever obtruded itself - we could not have understood in what manner it might be made to further the objects of humanity, either temporal or eternal. We saw no need of impulse - for the propensity. The idea of it has never occurred to us, simply because of its supererogation. We have suffered its existence to escape our senses solely through want of belief - of faith - whether it be faith in Revelation, or faith in the Kabbala. In the pure arrogance of the reason, we have all overlooked it. In the consideration of the faculties and impulses - of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them. The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.They are tempted to embrace their own perversity, for it contains great power, and it takes much to banish monsters beyond the Shroud between the worlds of the living and of the dead. Birthed from their particular untameable urges and compelling them to commit terrible deeds, only by fighting those who have given in to their own Imps can the protagonists gain redemption. Each protagonist is an inhabitant of this Gothic rendition of the historical Jacksonian period in America, and each bears an Imp of the Perverse on their own shoulder. Using pencils, paper, dice, and your shared imagination, you shall compose compelling tales of horror as your protagonists hunt down the very real monsters that plague their mortal world.
This game invites you and your friends to enter a Jacksonian Gothic America where dark passions pierce the all-too-thin Shroud over the land of the dead, rending holes through which monsters arise, seeking satisfaction of their perverse desires.
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