Lord of the Silent Death

An ancient, sealed Sumerian container is opened and releases a lethal force that kills by erasing sound; an archaeologist who tries to decipher the object's inscriptions dies as silence consumes his surroundings. The phenomenon migrates into a Chicago museum, where a young museum worker and homicide detectives encounter inexplicable, noiseless deaths among the artifacts and investigate the relic's origin. The narrative combines pulp science-fiction horror and archaeological mystery, depicting the consequences of disturbing buried, incomprehensible powers and the race to understand and halt an uncanny, soundless menace.