Jeffrey Kosh

The dead don’t rest in peace in the village of Grabenfeld.

 

It’s the second half of 1920 and the bodies of the recently deceased have been disappearing for months in a remote village of the Hexental. The superstitious folk have started whispering of ravenous undead and witchcraft, but Doctor Maximilian von Richter, famous pathologist and consultant to the Grand Duchy of Wissenheim police, doesn’t believe in the supernatural; he’s a man of science and logic. And when he is asked to investigate the grave robberies he can’t fail to notice the ghastly similarities to some unsolved cases that have haunted him for years. Hardened by the Great War and by a personal tragedy, Richter is obsessed at discovering the identity of the mysterious researcher behind some of the most bizarre and unholy experiments ever made by man. Assisted by his best friend, he is soon lured into a legacy that has plagued the area for more than one hundred years; a legacy that has been inherited by a man without morals and that will make Doctor Richter doubt his own faith, oaths, and ethics with a simple question:

 

What makes you tick?

 

Set in the same universe of Franklin E. Wales’ The Legacy of Frankenstein, this riveting novel blends historical details with the fictional silver screen world of Hollywood’s backlot Mitteleuropa, a place where the Gothic and Pulp genres mix, where mad scientists rub their shoulders with organized crime and where the stormy clouds of true, human evil loom on the horizon.

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Published by JaFra Publishing