Constable and Toop

Something mysterious and terrible is happening throughout Victorian London: Ghosts are disappearing. When this reaches the attention of the Ghost Bureau, the diligent but clueless Mr. Lapsewood, a paranormal paper-pusher, is sent to investigate, and what he discovers is grave. The Black Rot has arrived – a voracious spiritual infestation whereby empty haunted houses suck in unsuspecting ghosts and imprison them.

Lapsewood’s investigation weaves through the plotlines of several other memorable characters – both living and dead – including an undertaker’s son who can see ghosts, a serial throat-slasher reminiscent of Jack the Ripper, an evangelical exorcist, and many more. The living and dead must work together if they hope to destroy the Black Rot – before it destroys both the ghost and human worlds.