In a world where overzealous scribes put to paper secrets humans should never know, sharp-eyed rare books librarians and their arcane use policies may be the only thing standing between humanity and its destruction. Yet as such books are bound to disappear, the Arkham Inquiry offers libraries its service for retrieval. When books of occult interest go missing, the Inquiry dispatches teams to retrieve the item or minimize its damage. Librarians only know these teams as qualified retrieval specialists who help them avoid nasty headlines, but they have saved much more than a few careers.
The Inquiry sends Investigators to recover the diary of Ezekiel de la Poer, a colonial-era French necromancer hanged for child-murder in 1736. It belongs to the rare books department of the University of Alabama, but was stolen at the home of an emeritus professor in the small town of Rosa, Alabama. The original owner committed abominable acts to gain preternatural powers, all detailed in his diary. The society doesn’t want others following its instructions and unleashing unknown forces.
Can you locate the diary and solve the riddle of Rosa? Find out in Midnight Sub Rosa.
