Feeling as though he may have found inspiration to write a book, Robert Black takes a leave of absence from his job as a newspaper journalist and sets out for the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn to interview occultist Robert Suydam.Robert Black considers several subjects for a book he hopes to write, and expresses his interest in new acquaintance Tom Malone. He finds a potential subject for his book in his interview with Suydam, but he can't decide whether his unnerving experience in the basement was real or a hallucination.An excerpt from Robert Suydam's pamphlet regarding The Book of the Wisdom of the Stars by Khalid ibn Yazid. - First half of the map of Providence. II: The Hook - Inspired from H. P. Lovecraft's short story The Horror at Red Hook. - Second half of the map of Providence.
