Paralysed down one side, Alex needed assistance to move around. He also drifted in and out of madness, but lucid or not, he was always a force of hatred and petty malice in his brother's home. In the end, Bill regretfully sold their parents' house for the money to hire an orderly to manage the invalid.
One example of Alex' mischief is stealing the family bible, a leather-bound antique and heirloom, from the mantelpiece and concealing it long enough to scribble blasphemous obscenities on every page. Bill was dismayed when he saw what the other Kirkby had done - every point of holy wisdom refuted by bizarre and contradictory notions of hungry gods, malevolent entities and the ecstasies of power waiting for those who serve them. His brother's beliefs horrified him, but the book held too much family history to dispose of, so he simply packed it away in a storage room trunk.

Alex choked in his sleep after a few short years, apparently succumbing to his injuries. Bill died in a fire at a relative's home half a decade later. His heirs faced the same dilemma over the bible, but it was eventually sold to a bookbinder who intended to remove the defaced pages and bind in a fresh copy of the testaments for resale. He began by carefully excising the book of Genesis, but perhaps he read too much from the pages he removed, because the job was never completed. He turned to drink and his business steadily declined until he was called up to serve in World War I, dying in the fields of France.

The book changed hands several times over the next few decades. Depression and nervous disorders seemed to plague its owners. The bible returned to the public eye shortly before World War II, in the possession of Stanley Wayne, former member of the Golden Dawn who led a faction to split off and form a lodge of their own. The membership was too fractious for the organisation to stay together long. Wayne himself was eventually declared bankrupt and his effects seized by creditors for sale to cover his debts.

The book is currently on display in a small vicarage museum. The owner is unaware of its mythos significance, but careful to keep it behind glass, so visitors can't open it and be shocked by the contents.

The lost first chapter, including a page of dedications where successive generations of Kirkbys have recorded the names of the heirs they pass the bible on to, was found and rebound along with a typed transcription of Alex' scribbles by descendants of his cult's other survivors. They search for the rest of the book, hoping to recover the knowledge lost with their ancestors, but the cult is considerably diminished and doesn't have the resources to mount an intensive search.

The Kirkby Bible
Study time: 6 - 8 weeks
Mythos knowledge: +5%, particularly related to worship of Cthulhu
San loss: 3/1D10
Spells: Breath of the Deep, Contact Creature (Deep One)

The Bleak Genesis (lost chapter)
Study time: 10 days
Mythos knowledge: +1%
San loss: 1/1D4
No spells.