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First of all, that's amazing. Great idea for a dice box or dice rolling tray.

Have you considered something like a holder for minis, dice, pens/pencils? Basically little compartments inside for a player kit. I've seen a websites selling custom wooden enclosures for dice, pens, and minis for D&D players but a copy of the Necronomicon for a CoC game would be amazing.

Book ideas:

• There are a lot of collections of HP Lovecraft tales, many of which have great covers. I would particularly look for ones that have especially popular titles on their covers. "Call of Cthulhu and other tales" looks more fun than "Tales of HP Lovecraft." Of course, cool looking covers trumps all. https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Cthulhu-Leatherbound-Classics-Collection/dp/1435162552/
  
• King in Yellow (as SamEire93 said)
  
• Necronomicon (as you said)
  
• Der Hexenhammer - an actual book often referenced in CoC and with a really cool name.
  
• Malleus maleficarum - A translation of the Der Hexenhammer which still has a cool name.
  
• The Lesser Key of Solomon - A real book sometimes used in CoC games and which has a cool cover. https://smile.amazon.com/Lesser-Key-Solomon-Aleister-Crowley/dp/0998136417
  
• Book of the Dead (Egyptian version) - An actual book often referenced in CoC and with a really cool name.
  
• The Book of Eibon - I'm not sure there are any decent looking copies that exist, but the concept is good.
  
• Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror - has a cool looking cover: https://www.amazon.com/Penny-Dreadfuls-Sensational-Leatherbound-Collection/dp/1435162765/
  
• Lovecraft Country - Maybe? It's a great book so I'd feel a little weird having it hollowed out, but a fan might really like the idea.

Not directly answering your question, but I just read one of the Delta Green novels by Dennis Detwiller and there's quite a bit of good Yithian stuff in there. If you want to read it, be sure to familiarize yourself with the basic Delta Green concept first.

Beyond that, the Yithian's main concern is altering the present in such a way that it sets up the future that they want to occur, which will provide a way for them to escape into that future. They time travel by projecting their minds into the future and switch minds with a person in order to do this. Sometimes they swap with people just to interrogate that person back in the past, filling in gaps in their knowledge. Other times they do it because there's something that needs to happen and they want to help it along. So you can include Yithians in pretty much any campaign, as either friends of the party or enemies, just by hand waving the fact that they want events to occur in a certain way.

[Spoilers from the book mentioned above:]
It might also be cool to introduce the more ominous side of Yithians. They're really amoral beings. The future they're trying to set up is one in which humanity destroys itself with nuclear weapons paving the way for a race of giant beetles to rule the earth. So while they might help people in the present, it's just because they want us to kill ourselves in the future.

HotOE is definitely a good one and and a mainstay of the CoC greatest hits collection. However, when you say your group has run through one campaign previously, do you mean that's your only experience with CoC? If so, I would recommend starting smaller with some single scenarios to build a little group experience. HotOE is perhaps the most complicated module ever published for CoC, both for player and Keeper and shouldn't be taken lightly.

However, if I've misread you and your group does have CoC experience, I would recommend it. That said, it isn't my main recommendation. You should look into 'Masks of Nyarlathotep,' which is in many RPG reviewers view the best horror campaign ever published. Certainly it has become the quintessential CoC campaign. It has the same scale and scope as Orient Express, and a similar play time, but it is much smoother to run without sacrificing difficulty. Also it's only $35, which is much nicer than the $115 price tag on HotOE. If you want to make it even bigger and badder version, there is the massive Masks of Nyarlathotep Companion, which was kickstarted by Sixtystone Press. It's rather tricky to get a hold of at the moment since it has yet to be released to non-backers, but if you email Adam at Sixtystone, you can become a late backer and get access to it now.

Masks of Nyarlethotep and Horror on the Orient Express are considered the gold standard of 7th edition CoC full campaigns. I'm currently running Time to Harvest, which is available for free to members of the Cult of Chaos (free to join Chaosium program) and will be released for purchase probably in 2018. I'm liking it a lot so far. I haven't run it, but the Ripples from Carcosa book looks really interesting. It includes 3 scenarios, each in a different time period (roman times, dark ages, the future) that can be played as a linked campaign (something like people connecting with their past lives and getting three opportunities to stop Hastur).

Edit: Masks isn't out for 7th edition yet, but will be in 2018.

Depending on how deep you want to dive, and excellent and very readable book on the topic is Frederick Lewis Allen's _Only Yesterday_, available for USD2.99 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Yesterday-Informal-History-1920s-ebook/dp/B00VH7BEFA/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=only+yesterday&link_code=qs&qid=1565630192&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-2

It might be worth the effort to track down the old Star Frontiers adventure 2010 (based on the movie of the same name). IIRC, it has the deckplans of the Discovery and the Leonov. In fact, you might be able to harvest quite a bit from that adventure. The monolith can be either a Yithian or Mi-Go artifact.

Also, if it hasn't been mention at yog-sothoth, check out the adventure Bad Moon Rising for dealing with the Yithians and being in space.

I believe the one you can get on Amazon is for 6th edition as it has it on the back cover; as long as it doesn't look like the older versions on the yog-sothoth link below or the 7th edition pdf I think you should be good


https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Masks_of_Nyarlathotep


https://www.amazon.com/Masks-Nyarlathotep-Perilous-Adventures-roleplaying/dp/1568823290

If you have some time to prepare read the book the "The Longest Cave" by Roger W. Brucker & Professor Richard A. Watson Ph.D. It's a true story about cave exploration. It will really give you an idea for the sheer isolation of caving far underground.

When you go through a tunnel in cave you always have to look behind you when you exit a tunnel. Imagine later backtracking and finding two exits. Did you come via the left or the right?

You come to pool. The only way forward is too dive into the pool which you assume a U shaped tunnel. (Or is it a J?) Once you come up on the other side it is pitch black. Is your torch wet? Your matches soaked?

Amazon also has it for a wee bit less than Chaosium

http://www.amazon.com/Horror-Orient-Express-Continent-roleplaying/dp/1568823908

I recently bought a hardcover 5th edition from an Amazon seller for about $35. I remember a few listings of 5th edition for close to that price and some a little less.

Here's a few: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0933635869/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1452440904&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Call+of+cthulhu+5th&dpPl=1&dpID=61BczfT5a0L&ref=plSrch

I ignore prices at brick and mortar stores, but ~$300 is the starting price at Amazon marketplace (https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1568821565).

For your consideration: Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos by B. Derie
https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Cthulhu-Mythos-Bobby-Derie/dp/1614980888

• Crib stuff from this list.
  
• Get yourself a copy of the Describer's Dictionary.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1568821808/

There is also one for San Fransisco, Morocco, and other cities. You could also look at Gaslight which focuses on late 1800s London (at least I think it is London, I haven't actually read it).

https://www.amazon.com/Petersens-Field-Guide-Cthulhu-Monsters/dp/0933635486

http://smile.amazon.com/Call-Cthulhu-Horror-Roleplaying-Lovecraft/dp/1568821816/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1452378050&sr=8-2&keywords=call+of+cthulhu+rpg

Yes.

The King in Yellow https://www.amazon.com/dp/1411685768/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LWFBDb9HJGJ8K

See also http://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-is-notable-about-my-version-of.html

Direct link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VH7BEFA/

This is more Judaism than Christianity but you might be interested in the Merkabah Rider series -- it's a Western that follows a Jewish mystic/gunslinger across the American Southwest. He's in his element when putting down Satanic threats. But then he discovers a more... ancient pantheon.

https://www.amazon.com/Merkabah-Rider-High-Planes-Drifter-ebook/dp/B07F667CNB/