The box

After checking that there was space in the shelves, Vanessa went into the backroom to unbox the new bundles, there were supposed to be two boxes filled with book of the newest poets, some of them so new that maybe only their own mothers knew about them, big were her surprise when instead of only the two boxes there were three, and to add to her surprise the third one looked very strange.

Wher did this thing even cane from? She said looking at the box, it looked old, really old, with moss growing on it and a feeling of humidity to the touch, Vanessa didn't even wanted to touch it but her curiosity and her Job obligation to take care of such things made her to.

she cut the tape and opened it wide and she saw!...

Books, old looking books, and also more old looking books, they all looked rotten and partially devoured by insects, it was like something taken out of a sunken chest from the abyssal zone.

Vanessa started inspecting them one by one, some of them where barely readable, other were completely unreadable, some where in Latin, other in languages she couldn't even identify, among all the books she only found one intact, it was black and it's cover seemed like it was made of pine bark, it had burned a strange simbol in the front and other in the back but at least it was in English, although it seemed to be a really old English, at least that was what it seemed, it was filled with words she had never seen before nor knew how to

[pronounce.

As

](http://pronounce.As) she looked at the book the felt a desire to inspect it further, until the book got her hooked completely, she started to inspect it page by page, barely reading the strange paragraphs and looking at the strange drawings until she landed in a page with a detailed drawing of four blue human hands without a body, below the drawing was a single line of text, Vanessa read it over and over trying to find out what this thing tried to say when she found herself in a trance-like state reading aloud that line, Vanessa shock from her trance just to see the book on the floor shaking and twisting by itself.

She could feel that something really bad was about to happen.