Yindu Ashes: A Record of Divine and Demonic Bone Admonitions

Eastern Lovecraftian Horror x Dark Political Intrigue x Bloody Aesthetics: more sinister than Tang Dynasty Unusual Tales, bloodier than Fox Spirit Matchmaker, more unhinged than A League of Nobleman, and stranger than The Silent House.

Tan Taiming was born bearing the Nightmare Clan's brand. In his left hand he holds the silver fish tally of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau; between the fingers of his right hand are embedded charred bones stained with demon blood. Ordered to investigate a skinning case, he discovers gills from a mermaid sealed inside a gold-lacquered lantern in the Ministry of Rites, and fox demon tears dripping across vermilion case files in the Ministry of Justice.