The first in a new range of novels of eldritch adventure from the
wildly popular Arkham Horror; an international thief of esoteric
artifacts stumbles onto a nightmarish cult in 1920s New England.
Countess Alessandra Zorzi, international adventurer and thief, arrives
in Arkham pursuing an ancient body freshly exhumed from a mound in
Oklahoma, of curious provenance and peculiar characteristics. But before
she can steal it, another party beats her to it. During the resulting
gunfight at the Miskatonic Museum, the countess makes eye contact with
the petrified corpse and begins an adventure of discovery outside her
wildest experiences. Now, caught between her mysterious client, the
police, and a society of necrophagic connoisseurs, she finds herself on
the trail of a resurrected mummy as well as the star-born terror
gestating within it.