It has been a number of years since I began excavating the ruins of Candar with a group of my colleges.

Scott, we can't take Linda anywhere with a leg like that.

- She's a... she's a friend of ours, isn't she? - Ash, she's dead.

Ah, as a Greek friend of mine once said...

A Volume of Ancient Sumarian burial practices and funerary incantations.

I don't understand it. I had this thing in for a tune-up yesterday and they said they'd go over everything.

...spirits of the book is through the act of...bodily dismemberment.

Two of Spades. Jack of Diamonds. Jack of Clubs!

Listen to me. Linda cannot walk with a leg like that. She can't even stand up.

Queen of Spades.

Four of Hearts.

Eight of Spades.

...roughly translated, Book of the Dead.

...distractions of modern civilization and far from the groves of academe.

It deals with demons and demon resurrection and those forces

Now, my wife and I have retreated to a small cabin in the solitude of these mountains.

Take a look.

Wait a minute!

It's a seven?

Like...Like you, kind of.