The following information is taken directly from the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign book, one of the finest suppliments in a long line of great supliments Chaosium has released for Call of Cthulhu.  If you're interested in running the campaign, don't try to crib together what scraps you can here; get the book.  I do play with a lot of the information and you never know when I might have shifted something to make it more smooth for my players, added something in, or ignored a bit I didn't want to use.  Get the Masks of Nyarlathotep book; it's well worth it.  These clippings are provided as player hand outs as part of the campaign.  They are Chaosium's property and used with their permission which is in the book.
 

SHOCKING CANVASES BRING RECOGNITION Local Artist's Monstrous Scenes Mock "Surrealists" NOW COLLECTORS CAN BUY savage scenes which rival or surpass the worst nightmares of the Great War, but are far more exotic than that grim business. London artist Mr. Miles Shipley's work is being sought out by collectors, who have paid up to £300 for individual paintings. The correspondant has seen dozens of the works of artist Miles Shipley, and finds them repulsive beyond belief.  Maidens ravished, monsters ripping out a man's innards, shadowy grotesque landscapes, and faces grimacing in horror represent only a fraction of Shipley's work. Withal their repellent content, these works are conceived and executred with uncanny verisimilitude, almost as though the artist had worked from photographs of alien places surely never on this earth! The artist reportedly is in contact with "other dimensions" in which powerful beings exist, and says he merely renders visible his visions. Mr. Shipley is a working-class man without formal artistic training, who has nonetheless made good where thousands have failed. Art critics say Shipley proides an English answer to the Continental artistic movement of "surrealism" whose controversial practicioners have still to convince John Bull that the way in which a thing is painted is more important than what is painted. A tip of the hat to Miles Shipley for exposing those frauds!

POLICE BAFFLED BY MONSTROUGH MURDERS! Inhuman Killer Shot But Still Alive? VALLEY OF THE DERWENT RESIDENTS, shocked several months ago by two murders and serious assault on a third victim, are still without explanation or perpetrator of the dreadful attacks. At that time, Lesser-Edale farmer George Osgood and resident Miss Lydia Perkins were torn to shreds in apparently unrelated murders on consecutive nights.  On the third night, wheelwright Harold Short was nearly killed but managed to drive off a grisly creature he claimed was man-like, but not human. Constable Tumwell, also of Lesser-Edale, believes that he shot and killed the creature on the night Mr. Short was attacked.  Other residents of the region have claimed to see the thing since. Reportedly Lesser-Edale endures to this hour the bizarre wailings of the beast on several evenings each month. Readers of The Scoop are reminded of their esteemed journal's long-standing Danger Protocals, and are advised that the picturesque cloughs surrounding The Peak have been declared by The Scoop to be a Zone of High Danger! Residents of the Midlands are advised to stay indoors at night, and report all mysterious happenings to the police and The Scoop.

SLAUGHTER CONTINUES! Scoop Offers Reward! AN UNIDENTIFIED FOREIGNER was found floating in the Thames this Tuesday, the 24th victim in a series of bizarre slayings. Though Inspector James Barrington of the Yard had no immediate comment, sources exclusive to The Scoop agreed that the victim had been beaten severly by one or more assailants and then stabbed through the heart. This series of murders has continued over the space of three years, to the bafflement of our faithful Metropolitans.  Must we hope that Mr. Sherlock Holmes, though reported by Mr. Doyle to be in retirement, will one last time rise to the defense of our majestic isles? Readers of The Scoop are reminded that this esteemed journal has a standing reward for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the perpetrators, in an ammount now risen to £24  with the latest death.  Be on guard!

"IT ALMOST HAD ME!" by Alan Groot, Victim It was like turning suddenly, knowing something was there, only to find nothing -- a nothing possessing hideous life!  The dank water smell of the cloying fog was replaced by a foul scent of smouldering hair which somehow reached out and filled my lungs, driving itself deep into my body.  I began to choke.  It meant to kill me.  I cannot describe the terrible feeling of invasion by those foggy tendrils.  And still I could see nothing!