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The Stacks

The records Pnakotic Press recovered and copied out: one long serial, and four bundles that came before it.

The serial

  1. The Number Beneath the LedgerAutumn 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.1997, 189 chapters, complete

The four records before it

  1. Library Beneath the FogNovember 1924, the manuscript stacks beneath Miskatonic University Library. The dean's diary an assistant librarian finds beside a bronze casket opens with three words: read no further.1924, 3 chapters, complete
  2. The Lamp Beneath the TideSeptember 1934, a lighthouse on an uninhabited Yellow Sea island. The more tides the keeper counts, the more come in that the printed table never listed.1934, 3 chapters, complete
  3. The Plumb Line Beneath the PitApril 1923, an idle coal mine deep in the Gangwon mountains. Each time the surveyor lets his plumb line down the shaft, the bottom lies a fathom farther off.1923, 3 chapters, complete
  4. The Signal Beneath the StaticNovember 1937, a wireless station on an East Sea cape. Dispatches dated tomorrow come in on a frequency no one uses. His predecessor left a note: copy it down, but do not answer.1937, 3 chapters, complete