Welcome to Arkham: An Illustrated Guide for Visitors

Welcome to Arkham: An Illustrated Guide for Visitors

By AP Klosky, David Annandale, and Matt Keefe

Explore the town of Arkham, setting for the beloved Arkham Horror series of tabletop games, in this comprehensive, full-color, hardcover guide to its people, places and strange goings on…

Witness Arkham like you’re walking its streets, peering into its shadows…

It is the height of the Roaring Twenties. Flappers and young fellas dance the Charleston at raucous jazz clubs gleaming bright with electric lights. Beneath this gilded glamour, bloody turf wars rage, funded by gangsters and crooked cops who frequent rival speakeasies and gambling dens. Amid these changing times, old New England towns hold their secrets close. Off the Aylesbury pike, in reclusive Dunwich, rolling hills hide decrepit farms and witch-haunted hollows. Past Cape Ann, the remote fishing village of Innsmouth rots from within. At the mouth of the Miskatonic River, mist-shrouded Kingsport lies dreaming. All the while, historic Arkham broods on the upper banks of the Miskatonic, its famed university delving into the world’s darkest, most ancient mysteries.

Welcome to Arkham invites you to venture deeper than ever before into this legend-haunted city, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos and made famous by the Arkham Horror series of tabletop games. Welcome to Arkham is a complete guide to the city of Arkham and the neighboring towns of Dunwich, Innsmouth and Kingsport, detailing 115 fabled locations and featuring more than 500 illustrations. Walk the streets of Arkham, ride the Essex County Express, hitch a ride to Innsmouth (and pray you can find a way out), or take a ferry down the Miskatonic River, and read between the lines to discover what other mysteries lurk deeper still in the pages of this tattered old book…

The definitive guide to the world of Arkham Horror.

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It is the height of the Roaring Twenties – a fresh enthusiasm for the arts, science, and exploration of the past have opened doors to a wider world, and beyond… And yet, a dark shadow grows in the city of Arkham. Alien entities known as Ancient Ones lurk in the emptiness beyond space and time, writhing at the thresholds between worlds. Eldritch rituals must be stopped and alien creatures destroyed; before the Ancient Ones make our world their ruined dominion. Only a handful of investigators stand against the horrors threatening to tear this world apart. Will they prevail?

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Publication Details

Page Count: 176pp
Genre: Fantasy and Non-fiction


Hardcover edition

US On Sale Date: April 16, 2024
UK On Sale Date: March 28, 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 9781839082252
Hardcover Dimensions: 213xmm x 277mm


Ebook edition

Global Ebook On Sale Date: March 28, 2024
ebook ISBN: 9781839082269

About the Author


AP KLOSKY is a Dayton-based author, editor, and game designer.  They are the creator of Cold Steel Wardens: Roleplaying in the Iron Age of Comics and have contributed to numerous hobby game books over the years.  They enjoy cooking, pop-culture philosophy, and their three cats. Their favorite Arkham investigator is Bob Jenkins and their favorite Great Old One is the King in Yellow.

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DAVID ANNANDALE writes Doctor Doom, Arkham Horror and Legend of the Five Rings fiction for Aconyte, and Horus Heresy, Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar and Warhammer Horror fiction for Black Library. Among his recent novels are Reign of the Devourer and The Harrowing of Doom. He is also the author of the horror novel Gethsemane Hall and the Jen Blaylock thriller series. By day, he is Senior Instructor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba, Canada, where he specializes in genre film and video games. He is also a co-host of the Hugo-nominated podcast The Skiffy and Fanty Show.

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MATT KEEFE is a writer and editor who has worked in the tabletop gaming and publishing industries for over 20 years. He was previously the editor of White Dwarf magazine and has played Legend of the Five Rings since the mid-1990s.

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Welcome to Arkham further brings the town to life as an illustrated guide to the neighborhoods and personalities that make up the town. The book is an excellent choice for any fan of the Mythos as it is not tied to any of the games and focuses on the fiction. It uses artwork from across the entire Arkham Files line to highlight the important people, places and things across Arkham. It also expands out into other places in so-called “Lovecraft Country” like Dunwich and Innsmouth.”
Forbes

“Whether you’re new to the world of Arkham Horror, or if you’re an old hat at the game and know every piece of lore and detail there is, Welcome to Arkham: An Illustrated Guide for Visitors is sure to delight and enthral.”
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Global Ebook On Sale: March 28, 2024
US Hardcover On Sale: April 16, 2024
UK Hardcover On Sale: March 28, 2024

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