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Last one of these from me.
From the product page:
Note: This product has been identified as adult content.
WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY HORROR SETTING
Carcosa is a science-fantasy role-playing game setting with a sandbox approach: whether heroic or opportune, adventurers of all stripes will find freedom and consequence worth their mettle in a horrifying milieu mixing adventure fantasy, the Mythos, and comic book sci-fi with no punches pulled.
Carcosa is compatible with Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Game and other old school fantasy adventure games. This expanded edition details 800 encounters on the 400-hex map and includes the starter adventure "Fungoid Gardens of the Bone Sorcerer."
The included PDF version of Carcosa is fully and extensively layered, bookmarked, and linked—truly a state of the art piece of PDF technology!
Warning: For Adults Only! Contains explicit descriptions and illustrations of vile black magic and violence.
Also, a bit of a warning. Carcosa is NOT a standard setting. The default assumption is for only two classes, the fighter and the sorcerer (detailed in the book). Specialists/thieves can be used or not with no changes. Clerics and Magic-Users are NOT really supported by the setting, nor are non-human characters. Magic items basically do not exist...although sci-fi type weapons somewhat take their place.
Somewhat more optionally, the game details a strange dice convention. Most combat numbers that are variable (hit points, damage per attack, etc) are determined separately for each combat, and even the type of dice used is determined randomly. So, a 10th level fighter might have 10d12 hit points for one encounter, and 10d4 for the next encounter. I can't really imagine anyone using this to the full extent that it is written in the book, but it is an interesting concept.
The setting, while optimized for use with the Lamentation of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy RPG, can be used with any old-school game with minimal adjustment.
Anyhow, if you're still interested, then the first three people that respond and tell me the name of the most infamous entity that resides in the Lake of Hali will receive a free PDF of this book.
Hastur, Hastur, Has... ARghhaa!!!
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And on reading my latest swag: Whoa. I'm not sure "interesting" is the word apposite, or whether to read this as a game manual or a Mythos tome. I give all respect and due caution to an author who's reread and contemplated not only Lin Carter at his Lovecraftian fruitiest, but A Voyage to freaking Arcturus so that he could enhance my game by it. Many thanks again to Kthulhu and Lamentations of the Flame Princess for the chance to experience this.
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Did I miss this ?
And
Who I first read about in the original 1st Ed Deities and Demigods.
I actually posted a cool "Free Carcosa" image as a joke a few months back in light of the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests. It's somethwere on the off topic forums.
Edit: Found it! Occupy Carcosa!
But check out InVinoVeritas link as well under mine it was very well placed.