This is a book, and like all Inside the Castle books it is our expectation that the onus of its ultimate completion lies on you, the reader. Never has this been more true than in Altars of Madness. The pages are achingly incomplete. The scenario is itchy. The reader is physically uncomfortable without attempting to engage the book. How does the reader engage? It should be quite obvious. The 100 puzzles in this book are identical grids of 1025 randomly numbered dots. As you have done since childhood, your task is to connect those dots in sequence with straight lines. It is as simple as that. We do not know what a finished puzzle looks like. How could we? We've never read one of our own books. It's not time to start now. We simply lay the trap, meticulously, methodically, mechanically.