Monk was still sitting in the chair they had left him in, but his eyes weren’t pennies in wishing wells now; they were glazed and incapable of focusing on anything. There was an open film canister at his feet and he clutched a reel of film to his chest like it was the most precious thing in the entire world. His whole body trembled violently, gripped by tremors that verged on seizures, and his mouth opened and closed again and again though he seemed to have little control over it or the word that he kept repeating over and over and over again. Just one word. It took Wheatley a moment to distinguish the syllables and differentiate the word from the rolling clack clack clack of sound:
Glaaki Glaaki Glaaki.
Clack clack clack…
Like mandibles…clacking…
He had heard that sound—that word—before. Realization sent a cold shiver down the ladder of his spine one bone at a time…
The Sign of Glaaki is an all-new novel set in the Arkham Horror universe. Written by the talented Steve Lockley and Steven Savile, The Sign of Glaaki pits history’s most esteemed escape artist, Harry Houdini, and his friend, bestselling novelist, Dennis Wheatley, against ancient evil in the small New England town of Dunwich.
When an actress is brutally murdered on the set of a high-profile horror film, the list of suspects seems endless. After all, the movie’s ambitious young director has assembled an unsavory cast of circus folk and misfits, any one of whom might have committed the vile act. But when other bodies begin to appear, someone – or something – far more sinister than a mere murderer is clearly at work. Now, it’s up to Houdini, Wheatley, and a cast of characters from the beloved Arkham Horror board game to discover the truth!