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Engraving: a wall lamp lights a ledger open on a desk in an empty basement room, a chair by the door.

The Number Beneath the Ledger

Autumn 1997, the records room of a merchant bank. In the hand that copies old ledgers, the numbers grow as they are set down, and the defaults arrive first, dated to a day not yet come.

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Contents, autumn 1997 to winter 2001

  1. October 1997 – February 1998Chapters 1–25
  2. February – March 1998Chapters 26–39
  3. March – April 1998Chapters 40–64
  4. November – December 1998Chapters 65–89
  5. January – July 1999Chapters 90–114
  6. August 1999 – January 2000Chapters 115–139
  7. January – December 2000Chapters 140–164
  8. January – December 2001Chapters 165–189
Engraving: an open wooden box of papers on a desk under a wall lamp, its drawers half pulled out.

The four records before it

Four bundles recovered before the ledger, each told in three chapters.

  1. Library Beneath the FogMiskatonic University Library, 1924. Where Dean Duncan once stood, only his diary remains.1924, 3 chapters, complete
  2. The Lamp Beneath the TideA lighthouse on a deserted West Sea island, 1934. In the predecessor's tide table, a thirteenth tide that comes on moonless nights.1934, 3 chapters, complete
  3. The Plumb Line Beneath the PitA coal mine deep in the Gangwon mountains, 1923. The surveyor's plumb line, sounding the shaft, begins one day to touch a depth it should never reach.1923, 3 chapters, complete
  4. The Signal Beneath the StaticA remote wireless station on the East Sea, 1937. A dispatch caught in the static bears a date not yet come and a callsign in no register.1937, 3 chapters, complete

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