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…
Dexter Drake. Occult magic. Sorcery. Gang warfare. Follow it all as it explodes in the streets of Arkham in The Cost of True Magic by C.L. Werner, the latest Arkham Horror novel from Aconyte Books, on sale now. Dubbed “The Great Drake,” Dexter is no stranger to the horrors that reside in Arkham, but when […]
The gang warfare brewing in Arkham is heating up, but the latest gunfight has escalated to a bloody shoot-out. Is the competition shifting into brutality between Arkham’s mainstay gangs, the O’Bannions and the Sheldons? Or is someone else trying to hustle their way onto Arkham’s streets? The Arkham Advertiser has the story. Miskatonic Massacre All-Out […]
Occult magic and a brewing gang war collide on the streets of Arkham in The Cost of True Magic by CL Werner, the latest thrilling Arkham Horror novel from Aconyte Books. Dexter Drake, the Magician (and the Mystic included in the Chapter 2 Core Set if you’re playing Arkham Horror: The Card Game) takes the novel’s center stage where he explores the allure […]
Dexter Drake. Occult magic. Sorcery. Gang warfare. Follow it all as it explodes in the streets of Arkham in The Cost of True Magic by C.L. Werner, the latest Arkham Horror novel from Aconyte Books, on sale now. Dubbed “The Great Drake,” Dexter is no stranger to the horrors that reside in Arkham, but when […]
The gang warfare brewing in Arkham is heating up, but the latest gunfight has escalated to a bloody shoot-out. Is the competition shifting into brutality between Arkham’s mainstay gangs, the O’Bannions and the Sheldons? Or is someone else trying to hustle their way onto Arkham’s streets? The Arkham Advertiser has the story. Miskatonic Massacre All-Out […]
Occult magic and a brewing gang war collide on the streets of Arkham in The Cost of True Magic by CL Werner, the latest thrilling Arkham Horror novel from Aconyte Books. Dexter Drake, the Magician (and the Mystic included in the Chapter 2 Core Set if you’re playing Arkham Horror: The Card Game) takes the novel’s center stage where he explores the allure […]