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Welcome to In Darkest England, and the Way Out - Bookhounds of London

19:15, 28th March 2024 (GMT+0)

In Darkest England, and the Way Out - Bookhounds of London

"In a Bookhounds of London campaign, the Investigators do not investigate horror and strangeness professionally. Rather, they investigate books about horror and strangeness and become, seemingly inevitably, drawn into the horror themselves. If they could just sell a pristine copy of the 1845 Bridewell edition of Nameless Cults, pocket their 40% (or 400%) and move on, they would. But it’s never that simple. Not for them. Not for Bookhounds. Not in London. Not now.
The global Depression has driven an unprecedented number of collectors – both individual and institutional – to sell off their holdings for whatever they can get. The global crisis has also driven an unprecedented number of over-educated, morally bankrupt aristocrats and resentful would-be Great Beasts to experiment with black magic ... including the Cthulhu Mythos. Between the two groups, sellers and buyers, a specialty market has sprung up in blasphemous tomes, no questions asked.
You cater to that market, finding books at estate sales or abandoned churches across the Home Counties, tracking down rumors and doing your competitors dirt. You’ve had to learn the difference between the 1452 and the 1472 editions of Wormius, and why neither should be opened at Ludgate, or anywhere during a full moon. Sometimes you touch up an imperfect von Junzt, and sometimes you might liberate a Prinn first edition from an insufficiently caring owner. It’s a hard old world out there, and maybe the hardest thing about it is that you have to save it from your own customers now and again."