The Dirge of Reason throws you headfirst into the roaring twenties, where tragedy has struck the small town of Arkham, Massachusetts. During an apparent freak accident, the entire New England Virtuosi Orchestra perished, and federal agent Roland Banks has been sent all the way from Washington D.C. to investigate. The official report reads, “Explosion, cause unknown.” Can you really expect anyone to be pleased with a conclusion like that? The house looks like a howitzer shell hit it, but nobody knows why and the local authorities weren’t encouraged to look very hard. There is no gas that anyone knows of, and the boiler was far too small to explode with that amount of force. Could it have been bootleggers? A mob hit? Or something more sinister, something unnatural?
Upon investigating the house, or what remains of it, Roland finds that even the trees are bowed away from the house as if some giant had pushed them askew. At the center of the clearing, there's nothing more than hints of foundation and a crumbling chimney which looms over a jumble of wood and rubble. There is no hint of fire anywhere. All the animals have fled, and the only sound is an unsettling wind that chills Roland’s heart and fills the federal agent with a sense of dread. Even dynamite would have been kinder than whatever happened here.

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