Contents.Career Keith Herber was born in, United States. He began working on the fourth edition of 's role-playing game in 1989; he was the line editor for the game for the next five years, including the change to the fifth edition of Call of Cthulhu in 1992, until he left Chaosium in 1994.: 90 While there he wrote and edited such award-winning books as The Fungi from Yuggoth, Spawn of Azathoth, Arkham Unveiled, Return to Dunwich, Investigator’s Companion Volumes 1 & 2, and the Keeper’s Compendium. The anthology was dedicated to his memory.Herber wrote for 's The Unspeakable Oath magazine.: 244 Following his time at Chaosium, Herber wrote two novels for 's game as well as the Tremere Clanbook.