The Infernal Archive, Volume I: The Unexplained

Thirty cases. The record exists, and it does not add up.

Nine hikers cut their way out of a tent from the inside and walked into the snow. Two green-skinned children climbed out of a hole in Suffolk. A Persian army marched into the Sahara and was not seen again. Four hundred people danced in a Strasbourg street until some of them died.

This is not a book of theories. Every entry names what physically survives — the autopsy, the register, the bones, the document, the site — and where the record goes silent, the entry says so and stops. The illustrations are the one exception, and they are marked. Where an account is folklore, the page you read it on says folklore.

The record

• Thirty entries across five books: Things That Should Not Have Been Seen · People Who Should Not Have Existed · Deaths Without Explanation · Plagues of the Mind · Objects That Should Not Exist
• 241 pages, set for reading rather than skimming
• Full-page plates — reconstructions of documents, places and engravings, marked as such
• The illustrations in this book are reconstructions. No photograph in these pages is a photograph. Where an image of the subject survives, the entry says where it is held.

The object

• Hardcover.
• Nothing here is kept in stock. Your copy does not exist until you ask for it. It is printed after you buy, and usually reaches you within twelve days.
• This listing is a print edition, not a digital download.

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