A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world
from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying from the Nebula Award-winning and New York
Times bestselling author of Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit
his deceased grandfather's overstuffed mansion-a veritable cabinet of curiosities-once he and
two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with
far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora where the
notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage
across a surreal through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and
vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies Jonathan pieces
together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from
Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step he and his friends
sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.
