Lord of the Mysteries: The Corpse Collector of Grey Harbor

Grey Harbor is shrouded in fog. It hardly sees a sunny day all year, making it a place where a Corpse Collector can truly thrive. Isaac is an Apprentice mortician at the Church of Evernight’s Weeping Willow Cemetery. When Beyonders lose control and die, ordinary people meet violent ends, and those left unclaimed, erased from the records, or stripped of even their names all end up on his cold table. Other people collect the bodies, clean them, bury them, and close the books. When Isaac collects a body, he listens to what the dead never got to say, takes care of their final unfinished business, then writes their names in a black ledger fastened with a copper clasp. “Take your time. There’s no rush. The sun isn’t up yet.” “I’ve got it written down.” He thought it was just a somewhat grim, somewhat tender line of work. Then he came across a body washed in from the sea whose every trace of identity had been precisely erased. He encountered things that survived by making people forgotten. Only after he made his way to the Underworld Gate did he finally understand the deepest curse of the Corpse Collector Pathway: Sequence 4, the Undying. They die once every sixty years and come back to life, only to forget most of who they are. He fought forgetting on behalf of the dead for an entire lifetime. In the end, it was his turn to be forgotten by the world. And the people he had once remembered so carefully came back for him, one by one, bearing pages full of names. Death is not the end. Being forgotten is. A Lord of the Mysteries fan novel, featuring the Corpse Collector Pathway.