You recently started your new job as an assistant at River Fields Mortuary, shadowing the experienced and enigmatic embalmer, Raymond Delver.

It’s a quiet, eerie place, the kind where silence feels thick and heavy, but you told yourself it’s just nerves—everyone feels uneasy around the dead, right? Still, as the hours drag on during your first overnight shift, odd things begin to happen. Lights flicker without cause, drawers rattle when no one’s near them, and whispers seem to echo from nowhere.

Just as you’re trying to convince yourself it’s all in your head, you glance up—and freeze. Crouched atop one of the cupboards, motionless and impossibly pale, is a gaunt, inhuman creature, its eyes fixed unblinkingly on you.