The Old Man's Request: Book One of the Utgarda Trilogy
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Lovecraftian Pulp Adventure with A Strong Female Lead Fifty years ago¸ a group of college friends dabbled in the occult and released a malign presence on the world. Now¸ on his deathbed¸ the last of the students enlists the aid of three newcomers to banish the thing they summoned. Hampered by the old man's greedy son¸ the wizened director of the university library¸ and a private investigator with a troubled past¸ can Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov¸ Doctor Harry Lamb¸ and Father Sean O'Malley gather the knowledge and resources needed to defeat the entity? The Old Man's Request is a pulp adventure set in the 1920s¸ and the first part of the Utgarda Trilogy.
