The second book in the Drowned City series – The Nightmare Quest of April May by Rosemary Jones – is out now. This time, the action moves to Arkham, where a mysterious sleeping sickness has taken hold, and April May, an advertising salesperson at the Arkham Advertiser, is drawn in to a mysterious adventure – alongside one or two familiar faces from the game.
April May is convinced she has the worst job at the Arkham Advertiser: placing adverts for lost dogs is about as tedious as it gets! The only thing that alleviates her boredom is her fantasies of pulp adventures. But when her best friend succumbs to a mysterious unwakeable sleep, she realizes the city is sleepwalking towards something terrible. It’s been raining for days and the Miskatonic River is rising to dangerous levels. Arkham grinds to a halt as its population falls into a deep sleep. Under cover of these apparently unrelated disasters, shadowy forces move to usher in something truly nightmarish. With the aid of psychologist Carolyn Fern and Professor Harvey Walters, April May must venture into the strange realms of the Dreamlands, where a man in a golden mask holds the key to rousing the city from its collective nightmare. But for Arkham, the waters continue to rise, and it’s closer than ever to the manifestation of something that no one can wake from.
The book serves as a prelude to the forthcoming The Drowned City expansion for Arkham Horror: The Card Game, and as a companion to The Forbidden Visions of Lucius Galloway. Together the two books presage the events of the Drowned City, but tell the stories of different characters, and can be read individually, in any order.
And this might not be the end of the Drowned City saga either…
Visions & Nightmares: An Arkham Horror Omnibus is on sale now, bringing together Mask of Silver, The Deadly Grimoire, and The Bootlegger’s Dance – three tales of mystery, adventure and eldritch horror in the golden age of movie-making, by Rosemary Jones. The collection also includes two brand new short stories, featuring Betsy Baxter, star of “The […]
Arkham Horror meets the silver screen this week, with Film Fatale coming soon for Arkham Horror: The Card Game, while today sees the release of the latest Arkham Horror omnibus from Aconyte Books. Visions & Nightmares collects three novels by Rosemary Jones – Mask of Silver, The Deadly Grimoire and The Bootlegger’s Dance – that […]
The Twilight Magus by Tim Pratt, published by Aconyte Books, is available now! Carl Sanford is back, but he is the leader of the Silver Twilight Lodge no more. Driven from Arkham in the aftermath of the events of the Drowned City, The Twilight Magus finds Sanford in Europe, scheming for a return to power and […]
Visions & Nightmares: An Arkham Horror Omnibus is on sale now, bringing together Mask of Silver, The Deadly Grimoire, and The Bootlegger’s Dance – three tales of mystery, adventure and eldritch horror in the golden age of movie-making, by Rosemary Jones. The collection also includes two brand new short stories, featuring Betsy Baxter, star of “The […]
Arkham Horror meets the silver screen this week, with Film Fatale coming soon for Arkham Horror: The Card Game, while today sees the release of the latest Arkham Horror omnibus from Aconyte Books. Visions & Nightmares collects three novels by Rosemary Jones – Mask of Silver, The Deadly Grimoire and The Bootlegger’s Dance – that […]
The Twilight Magus by Tim Pratt, published by Aconyte Books, is available now! Carl Sanford is back, but he is the leader of the Silver Twilight Lodge no more. Driven from Arkham in the aftermath of the events of the Drowned City, The Twilight Magus finds Sanford in Europe, scheming for a return to power and […]