The London streets and squares have seen many things, but for Thomas Pitt, a police inspector, there was no way he could recall anything like this when he was told that one evening a respectable couple was pulled into their cab by… a corpse—and, what’s more, a two-week-old one, already lying in a grave at the cemetery near Resurrection Row for some time.
Pitt never believed in supernatural forces or horrors from beyond. That means someone really needed to dig the dead man up from his grave and put him into the cab. But why? To draw attention to the deceased and hint that he was made to die? Yet there are no traces of violence on the body.
The case becomes even more confusing when, in much the same way, other corpses from the same cemetery begin to “come back to life.” Absolute riddles! For now, Thomas feels certain of only one thing: all these resurrections are merely the beginning of something truly mysterious and terrifying…