From November 1918 to September 1929, the young poet Henri Salem fell in with the surrealists of Paris. Swept up by the imperious charisma of group leader Andre Breton, he rapidly found himself sharing cafe tables with the key figures of this most influential and fractious art movement of the pre-war period, including Marcel Duchamp, Antonin Artaud, and such Mythos figures as Randolph Carter, King Kuranes, and the ghoul once known as Richard Pickman. As such his diary serves as an indispensable guide to anyone wishing to explore the dangerous demimonde of the Parisian art scene, where disagreements over aesthetics are often settled with knife wounds and broken bones. Evocative, enigmatic, and haunted by airborne polyps, The Book of Ants gives Trail of Cthulhu Keepers and players an essential window into Paris of the 20s and 30s, and into the Dreamlands beyond.