Carrion Hill

Dark horror stalks the streets of Carrion Hill, the strangest and most debased city in the star-crossed gothic horror kingdom of Ustalav. Following the once-forgotten instructions of an ancient eldritch ritual, a cabal of villains conjured up a creature of terrible power in the ruined catacombs of the city. Putting a stop to the abomination means dealing with the cabal one by one, from its weakest devotee to its most potent dark master. A dark urban horror adventure for 5th-level Pathfinder Roleplaying Game characters, Carrion Hill brings Lovecraftian horror to the game table and irreparable psychic damage to your player characters.

Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30)

Proceedings of the Geological Society of London

Understanding of animal social and sexual evolution has seen a renaissance in recent years with discoveries of frequent infidelity in apparently monogamous species, the importance of sperm competition, active female mate choice, and eusocial behavior in animals outside the traditional social insect groups. Each of these findings has raised new questions, and suggested new answers, about the evolution of behavioral interactions among animals. This volume synthesizes recent research on the sexual and social biology of the Crustacea, one of the dominant invertebrate groups on earth. Its staggering diversity includes ecologically important inhabitants of nearly every environment from deep-sea trenches, through headwater streams, to desert soils. The wide range of crustacean phenotypes and environments is accompanied by a comparable diversity of behavioral and social systems, including the elaborate courtship and wildly exaggerated morphologies of fiddler crabs, the mysterious queuing behavior of migrating spiny lobsters, and even eusociality in coral-reef shrimps. This diversity makes crustaceans particularly valuable for exploring the comparative evolution of sexual and social systems. Despite exciting recent advances, however, general recognition of the value of Crustacea as models has lagged behind that of the better studied insects and vertebrates. This book synthesizes the state of the field in crustacean behavior and sociobiology and places it in a conceptually based, comparative framework that will be valuable to active researchers and students in animal behavior, ecology, and evolutionary biology. It brings together a group of internationally recognized and rising experts in fields related to crustacean behavioral ecology, ranging from physiology and functional morphology, through mating and social behavior, to ecology and phylogeny. Each chapter makes connections to other, non-crustacean taxa, and the volume closes with a summary section that synthesizes the contributions, discusses anthropogenic impacts, highlights unanswered questions, and provides a vision for profitable future research.