The Scroll

An ancient scroll draws a bookseller into a chilling mystery in this short story from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Cater Street Hangman.

Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Danforth tries to photocopy and photograph it, but he ends up with blank images, as though the ink were made of something impervious to modern technology. As...