Arkham and Innsmouth Miniatures: ZombieMania’s Lovecraft Kickstarter

Four hundred Lovecraft citizens, two cursed towns, one printer.

A Tale of Two Cities: Arkham & Innsmouth is the new Kickstarter from ZombieMania, a miniatures team based in Madrid. It offers more than 400 Arkham and Innsmouth miniatures as 31mm STL files to print at home. The range has Lovecraft’s monsters, but its real focus is the people: the citizens and investigators of his two best-known towns. The rewards are digital files for personal use, not painted figures or a boxed game. The campaign closes on 3 November 2026. Here is what it offers, and why a crowd of ordinary people might be the most Lovecraftian thing about it.

The monsters in Innsmouth are easy to sculpt. The harder thing, and the more Lovecraftian one, is the crowd: the clerk, the drunk, the people at the windows. A range of four hundred ordinary citizens understands that the horror in Lovecraft’s towns starts with the neighbours.

The Grocery Clerk Who Came From Arkham

In The Shadow over Innsmouth, the only person in town who looks normal is a young man behind the counter of a grocery shop. He is not from Innsmouth at all. He is from Arkham.

That small detail is the whole of ZombieMania’s new campaign in one image. Two towns, one road between them, and a horror that lives as much in the people as in the sea.

Lovecraft wrote the novella at the end of 1931. It came out in April 1936 from a tiny press, in a run of about 200 copies. It was the only book of his fiction printed while he was alive. Its narrator, named Robert Olmstead in Lovecraft’s notes, takes the cheapest route to Arkham. That means a bus through Innsmouth. By the end he has reached Arkham and gone to the police. The two towns are the start and end of one trip. That makes “A Tale of Two Cities” a better title than it first looks.

Arkham and Innsmouth Miniatures: What the Campaign Offers

ZombieMania says the set has more than 400 Lovecraft miniatures, from Arkham, Innsmouth and a team of investigators. Everything comes as 31mm STL files, so you print the figures yourself. GamingTrend’s report on the launch says the range runs from townsfolk to the horrors that wait just out of sight.

Be clear about what you are backing. ZombieMania’s own pitch says the rewards are digital files for personal use. You do not get physical figures, and you do not get a game. The campaign blurb also says the files are only on offer through Kickstarter.

The campaign runs for fifteen days, from 20 October to 3 November 2026. The tracking site Kicktraq lists it in Madrid, with a goal of €500. It has already passed that goal, so the files will be made whatever happens in the last few days.

ZombieMania is a new name on Kickstarter, but not a new team. In an update the day before launch, the team said it had been selling STLs through crowdfunding for years. It opened a new account just for this.

You can see the collection and back it here: A Tale of Two Cities: Arkham & Innsmouth on Kickstarter.

Why the Citizens Matter More Than the Monsters

Most Lovecraft miniatures go straight for the tentacles. That makes sense. A Deep One is a gift to a sculptor. Cthulhu sells.

But think about how The Shadow over Innsmouth really scares you. The narrator does not meet a god in the first chapters. He meets a town. He meets faces at windows, people who walk oddly and a drunk who tells him too much. The fear builds from people who are not quite right.

That is why a range built on everyday people is truer to the book than one more sea monster. Put a dozen Innsmouth townsfolk on a table and the players do not know who to trust. That doubt is the story. A creature only tells you the scene has already gone wrong.

Arkham works the other way. It is the town people go to for answers. August Derleth, who set up Arkham House after Lovecraft died, called Arkham Lovecraft’s name for “legend-haunted Salem”. The press took its name from it. An Arkham crowd gives you the people who go looking. An Innsmouth crowd gives you the people they find.

For a horror scene on a painting desk, that pairing does a lot of work. You can build the bus stop, the shop and the street, and fill them with people before anything comes out of the water.

A Busy October for Arkham

ZombieMania is not the only one in Lovecraft country this autumn. Fantasy Flight Games set 21 October 2026 as the start date for its Arkham Horror Remastered campaign on Gamefound. It brings back the 2005 board game with new art. Its updates had already shown off the Dunwich, Kingsport and Innsmouth add-ons.

So Arkham and Innsmouth went live on two sites within a day of each other. One is a big firm bringing back a classic box. The other is a small Madrid team selling files you print at home. Both are betting that people still want to walk those streets.

Madrid has plenty of teams making these files. Kicktraq lists other Lovecraft STL projects from the city, such as a 31mm cultist set from STL 4 RPGs and the Lovecraft Books series from 3D IPStudios.

What You Are Actually Paying For

There are practical questions to ask before you pledge.

First, you need a 3D printer, or a friend with one. These are files, not figures.

Second, check the scale. Many ranges are sold at 28mm or 32mm. These are 31mm, so hold the campaign images up against your own figures first.

Third, read the licence. Personal use means you can print and paint the figures for your own table. It does not mean you can sell the prints.

And fourth, mind the clock. The campaign closes on 3 November, so there are only a few days left to make up your mind.

None of that is a criticism. It is just how STL campaigns work. But if you expect a box of painted figures through the letterbox, you will be let down. ZombieMania has been upfront about it, which is to its credit.

The Shadow Under the Shadow

There is one more thing a range like this has to carry. The Shadow over Innsmouth is about a town people fear because of who its families have bred with. Writers on Lovecraft, from L. Sprague de Camp on, have set out his horror of mixed blood. It sits close to the surface of this book.

That matters more for a citizens range than a monster range. A sculpted Deep One is a monster. A sculpted Innsmouth family is a group of people the story asks you to be afraid of.

You can argue that miniatures do not need to fix Lovecraft’s prejudices. The figures are just tools for a game. That is fair. But it also gives the painter and the game master a real choice. The same townsfolk can be the threat. Or they can be the victims, trapped by a deal made long before they were born. A crowd of ordinary people lets you tell either story. A tentacle only lets you tell one.

Our review of Alan Baxter’s The Rise shows how much modern cosmic horror gets from a town and its people, not just the thing in the water. Lovecraft’s towns have outlived him because there is room in them for new stories.

Which brings us back to the grocery clerk. He is the one person in Innsmouth who looks safe, and he is safe because he comes from somewhere else. If these four hundred citizens do their job, your players will spend the whole night wondering who else in town is safe.

For more of the strange corners of the genre, see our horror features and the rest of Ginger Nuts of Horror.

This news feature was written from campaign information supplied by ZombieMania’s campaign team. Ginger Nuts of Horror has not printed or tested the files.