"Private investigator Titus Farrow is doomed by an encounter with the Chambers Scroll; Roderick Langham solves the mystery of the 'Demeter' from his armchair by the sea; a failed author goes in search of the barghest for inspiration; a missing person case turns even nastier than blackmail; Sweeney Todd meets his match. These stories make a gripping journey through 'The King in Yellow', 'Dracula', 'Sweeney Todd', and the noir fiction of the pulp era."--Publisher description.