Cool air: Writer Randolph Carter moves into a squalid boarding house in the summer of 1925. In between confrontations with a colorful landlady, he becomes friends with a mysterious doctor who revives him after a near-fatal heart attack. Learning the circumstances that brought the doctor to the boarding house, Carter discovers the awful truth about the doctor, and the fragile line that separates life and death. An imperfect solution: A doctor creates the perfect corpse to reanimate. Nyarlathothep: An Egyptian king awakes from his crypt and unleashes his powers onto the world. The hound: Grave robbers are followed by a deadly presence after taking a jade pendant. The hapless antiquarian: An antiquarian bookseller discovers the Necronomicon.