Publisher's blurb: Expand your Curse of Strahd game with this excellent Dungeon Master's resource - a journal from the Abbot in the Abbey of St Markovia! Use this to: Aid exposition about the backstory of the Abbot! Show his insanity via exciting text and descent-into-madness handwriting! Set the mood of age and rot in Barovia - full-color moldy journal pages! Tie in Strahd to the Abbot! Reveal Vasili von Holtz's secret identity! Explore the creation of the mongrelfolk! Freak out your players (that last page...shudder!)