The Paris Coroner, 1890

Paris, 1890. Beneath the splendor of the Belle Epoque, something uncanny is taking root in the shadows. Edmond Moreau is the youngest medical examiner in the police department, and the only one who dares to cut open "that kind of thing." Last week's corpse died from "being strangled by its own shadow"; this week's has an eye growing inside its heart. Other examiners search for the cause of death. Edmond searches the bodies for "it": the thing that killed them, and whether it left behind a scent, footprints, and a time for its next meal. Every corpse split open by his scalpel has a story to tell. But the price is that Edmond's own body is slowly becoming "uncanny". His left eye is beginning to see things no one else can. "The dead don't lie." "But the man examining them is becoming a new mystery."