Mythos Tales: Probe Arkham’s darkest doings in this Lovecraft deduction game

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You're just an ordinary 1930s inhabitant of the ordinary town of Arkham, Massachusetts-a plain New England place where nothing unusual ever happens. Well, except for that one infestation of hood-wearing cultists hoping to usher an angry Elder God into our world. Or that little problem with the Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath. Or those 17th-century witches who don't seem to be quite dead yet. Or that matter of the snake god Yig.

When occult trouble threatens, Miskatonic University's aging librarian, Professor Henry Armitage-the kind of man who runs a "restricted section" featuring books like the human-skin-covered Necromomicon-beckons you to his office. In his kindly way, he asks if you would be so good as to poke around Arkham, ask some questions, visit a few locations-in other words, clear this whole mystery up. Of course, it's probably nothing...

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