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.
