The Darkness in Old Bellblack

“You can't have her!”

October 1930

Arkham, Massachusetts

When the most powerful criminal in the city walks into a detective agency, only trouble can follow. Lazarus Core looks into O'Tipp’s eyes and half expects to be shot. He'd deserve it. Lazarus and his best friend Sadie have been getting in O'Tipp's way for months. But the syndicate leader has a different purpose for this visit: He wants Lazarus’s help.

O'Tipp, a follower of the “Old Ways”, sends Lazarus into the abandoned Bellblack Asylum. A former sanitarium, closed for 20 years prior, Lazarus knows nothing about it. O'Tipp claims a book has been left within it, a book he cannot claim on his own. And he says that Lazarus must get it without Sadie.

It's clearly a trap. Lazarus and Sadie are sure of that. Disobedience seems the best choice; Sadie joins Lazarus on the midnight search. It's a choice Lazarus regrets. Something takes Sadie. It speaks with her voice. It knows his name. And Lazarus must save his best friend from it

FEATURES:

• Trans man protagonist
  
• Found family - no romance
  
• Frightening villains - human and eldritch both
  
• Ominous setting
  
• Everyone has secrets - everyone