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.
From Aconyte Books:
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…
Find out more about The Nightmare Quest of April May over on the Aconyte Books website, or find out where you can pick up a copy here.